They celebrate together according to the Eastern Orthodox calendar, with unique customs like Palm Sunday procession, Good Friday remembrances, and Easter Sunday's egg dyeing and game playing. Syrian ...

The season moves slowly. The church slows the time even more in the last week, Holy Week, to linger in the course of Jesus’ ...

While united in commemorating Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem, Western, Eastern, and Ethiopian Christians observe Palm ...

Easter will be celebrated the same day for Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox members alike. Father Kostandin Tuda of Holy ...

at the Palm Sunday procession in Berlin-MitteImage: Christoph Strack/DW Bishop Grigorije of the Serbs expressed a similar sentiment. Whenever Easter dates coincide between the Orthodox Church and ...

Orthodox Easter is associated primarily with the ... his tomb after lying there dead for four days. After Lent comes Palm Sunday, which is the first day of Holy week and marks one week before ...

(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) An elderly woman prepares her Easter baskets to be blessed during celebration of the Orthodox Easter ... strike on Sumy during Palm Sunday, and the bombardments ...

(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service ... into the early hours of Sunday. For Putin, the Orthodox faith is central ...

Orthodox Easter occurs anywhere from mid-April to early May. Easter is celebrated in Cyprus as the holiest day of the Christian year and the whole of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday till Easter Sunday, is ...

Moscow's proposed Easter ceasefire comes on the heels of two major Russian attacks on Ukraine during Orthodox holidays. A deadly missile strike on Sumy on Palm Sunday killed 35 people while an attack ...

On Palm Sunday this year, the church in Berlin-Mitte was ... Bishop Grigorije of the Serbs expressed a similar sentiment. Whenever Easter dates coincide between the Orthodox Church and the majority ...

Orthodox Easter Sunday is on April 20, 2025, the same day as Western Easter. Easter also is a celebration of spring and new life, thus the celebratory incorporation of eggs, flowers and bunnies.