The date of Easter is tied to Passover and the lunar calendar, a formula set by church leaders nearly 1,700 years ago.

US Orthodox leaders call for alignment of Easter with Catholics and Protestants to honor Nicaea and strengthen Christian unity worldwide.

Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden’ in Greek, but it is often used to describe texts that are outside the official biblical canon.

In 2026, the Catholic or Western Easter will be celebrated on April 5. The Orthodox Easter, however, falls a week later on ...

Houston: Hindus are the most highly educated religious group in the United States, followed by Jews, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Centre which examined educational attainment across ...

"Since Jesus sacrificed his flesh for us on Good Friday, we refrain from eating flesh meat in his honor on Fridays," stated the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Flesh meat includes the meat ...

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A close confidant of Prince Philip and Lord Mountbatten, the late Duchess of Abercorn was the aunt of the Duke of Westminster ...

Pope Leo XIV may be less inclined to stick his thumb in the eye of the conservative resistance, but he's no less committed to Pope Francis' agenda.

Kosovo, a young nation of 2 million people, is more than 90% Muslim and is still reeling from a war in 1998-99 it waged for independence from predominantly Orthodox Christian Serbia. Kosovo's ethnic ...

Then Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, continuing attacks initiated in 2014, which up to that point alone had killed more than 14,000. A week into the 2022 ...