The Easter bunny is showing up a little earlier this year. Easter falls on Sunday, March 31. Many could wonder why Easter isn't in April this year. Here’s what to know: Easter commemorates the ...

Jan. 2025 holiday schedule: MLK Jr. Day, Inauguration Day, day of mourning, National Days Martin Luther King Jr. Day occurs ...

You can still listen to our current series of Lent and Easter reflections and watch videos about each of the Holy Days. Listen to 11 specially written reflections from the Abbey. The reflections were ...

Easter is one of the biggest Christian holidays of the year, and is widely celebrated all over the world. For anyone looking to celebrate this Holy holiday, you might be wondering where in the ...

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one of the most important, complex, and profound days of celebration in the Catholic Church. Holy Thursday celebrates the ...

Poland is well-known for its unique and elaborate traditions surrounding Holy Week and Easter. As Poles left their homeland in the 19th and 20th centuries for the promise of a new life in the West, ...

In most churches, the decorations are red to symbolize the blood of martyrdom. Some churches remove all decorations on Good Friday, veiling anything that can’t be removed in black or purple.

A series of bombs ripped through churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing at least 290 people and injuring hundreds. Several of those bombs went off inside churches, during ...

In 2024 Easter Sunday is on 31 March. The week leading up to Easter is called Holy Week. This is the Sunday before Easter Sunday. It is the first day of Holy Week and celebrates Jesus's arrival in ...

Part 2 at 4pm: Baroque music appropriate to Holy Week from one of Prague's most ... the BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra from the Easter at King's Festival in Cambridge.