The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

and Greek Orthodox Easter is celebrated by enjoying traditional foods like lamb, and attending Friday, Saturday, and Sunday church services. Families dye Easter eggs red to represent the blood of ...

That brings us to 2025, which will see a remarkable coincidence: Both the Eastern and Western will hold Easter on the same ...

This year, Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter on April 19, according to the old Julian calendar. Celebrations were limited and religious services were held under the rules of social distancing ...

There is once again renewed hope that ongoing ecumenical dialogue between the Greek ... the date of Easter would continue to be set according to the “Old Calendar” for all Orthodox Christians ...

Night-time Easter services and processions will be held in Russian Orthodox churches. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will celebrate Easter Vigil Liturgy at at the Christ the Savior ...

The Orthodox church celebrates the resurrection of Christ on a different date to non-Orthodox Easter, because it uses the older Julian calendar. In a Greek Orthodox Church in Sydney, the ...