With the blossoming of spring brings the holiest day in the Christian religion — the celebration of Easter. See when the ...

Lent and Easter services, events and Christian resources for 2025 will be announced early next year. You can still listen to our current series of Lent and Easter reflections and watch videos about ...

Easter, the Christian holiday, is creeping up, with Holy Week kicking off this weekend on Palm Sunday. For those celebrating the festivity, there are plenty of traditions to partake in, including ...

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 ...

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.

Easter is the most important festival in the Christian calendar. It celebrates Jesus rising from the dead, three days after he was executed. The date of Easter Sunday varies from year to year.

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 ...

On Sunday 20 March (Palm Sunday), Ian Skelly presents the European Broadcasting Union's annual day of music to mark Holy Week, with live and pre-recorded concerts from Amsterdam, Brussels ...