Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

As spring slowly moves into sight, the Christian Easter season grows closer. However, Easter falls much later than usual this year. While the holiday sometimes comes in March, it can take place ...

“While Christmas is fixed to a solar calendar (and near the winter solstice), Easter is based on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar,” the almanac says. “In the Christian ...

Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion on the cross, per BBC.

renewing his appeal that Christians might take “a decisive step forward toward unity around a common date for Easter.” Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian ...

This year, Easter Sunday is observed on Sunday, April 20. Easter is the holiest day in the Christian calendar, observing the day Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead three days after his death ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. As about 62 percent of the population is Roman Catholic, Holy Week masses are often attended on Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, ...

Easter is one of the most important dates in the Christian calendar, and it’s also a major secular holiday, too. For Christians, Easter is the day of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus ...

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 ...