While many Islanders will be wrapping up their Easter festivities, for some the holiday is just beginning. Members of the Eastern Orthodox community on P.E.I. are celebrating the end of the Great ...

In a shelter outside the city, 16 women and children from Mariupol gathered around a long table for a traditional Easter meal, including paska, a type of sweet bread, and brightly decorated cakes.

Greek Orthodox Easter marks the end of "Great Lent" a 40-day period of fasting from Clean Monday until "Pascha," Easter Sunday. Most of the world’s approximately 260 million Orthodox Christians live ...

Millions of Ukrainians celebrated Orthodox Easter on Sunday with prayers, hymns and hope for an end to the war in their homeland. Despite curfews, security concerns and intense fighting around ...

While Easter falls anywhere between March 22 and April 25, Orthodox Easter often occurs a week later, taking place between April 4 and May 8. Though in rare instances, the dates align, and both ...

MOSCOW, April 20. /TASS/. Orthodox Christians all around the globe are celebrating Easter, their main holiday, on Sunday. This year Orthodox Easter coincides with the holy day for Catholics. The ...

TORONTO — Today, Premier Doug Ford issued the following statement to mark Orthodox Easter: “Today, Orthodox Christians in Ontario and around the world celebrate Easter. The holiest day in the Orthodox ...

The rituals leading up to Easter are the same. The solemn Good Friday processions. The Holy Saturday blessings of foods that were avoided during Lent. The liturgies accompanied by processions ...

For Orthodox Christians, this is normally a time of reflection and mourning followed by joyful release, of centuries-old ceremonies steeped in symbolism and tradition. But this year, Easter -- by ...

ATHENS, Greece - Worshippers lined up at churches across Greece on Orthodox Good Friday as the government kept pandemic restrictions in place through the Easter holiday while preparing to restart ...

"Today, Orthodox Christians in Ontario and around the world will be celebrating Easter, the holiest day of the year. For many, Easter represents hope and renewal. It’s a special time for families and ...