Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops to pause military operations in Ukraine for Orthodox Easter while staying on alert for provocations. President Vlodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine ...

We see it everywhere – on our phones, on the door of our fridges – and organise our lives around it. Yet the origins of the ...

To understand why Catholic and Orthodox Christians celebrate Easters on different dates you have to go back more than 400 ...

President Vladimir Putin has ordered a Russian military ceasefire for 32 hours as part of the Easter truce, with Ukraine also ...

Here’s what the recent ceasefire proposal between Russia and Ukraine means, plus why Orthodox Christians are celebrating ...

The world's Orthodox Christians will celebrate Easter this weekend, with more than half a million Australians expected to ...

While Catholic Christians celebrate on Easter Sunday, Orthodox Christians celebrate Orthodox Easter. Here's why these ...

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The dating of Greek Easter or Pascha, has bedeviled theologians for centuries. The Greek Orthodox use the calendar devised by Julius Caesar.

The day before Archbishop-Emmeritus Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz addressed the clergy and believers in Belarus with strong words. The honorable hierarch and moral authority of Belarusian Catholics said that ...

Easter, which celebrates Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, is Christianity’s most important holiday. [...] ...

April Fool’s probably started in 1582, when much of Europe switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, which moved New Year’s from April 1 to Jan. 1. Those that still clung to the old calendar ...