Greek Orthodox Easter is the conclusion of Greek Orthodox's "Great Lent," a strict 40-day period of fasting. Great Lent ends on Lazarus Saturday, which is when Orthodox Christians believe Jesus ...

According to History.com, Orthodox Easter is also the conclusion of "Great Lent," a 40-day period of self-examination and fasting that starts on Clean Monday and ends on Lazarus Saturday.

For many Christians, Easter was celebrated this year on March 31. But for Eastern Orthodox Christians, the celebration of Jesus Christ's Resurrection occurs more than a month later, on May 5.

In Eastern Orthodox churches, Easter is also known as Pascha. That's the Greek word for "Passover," the Jewish holiday Jesus celebrated the night before his Crucifixion (The Last Supper was also a ...

On occasion, Orthodox Easter lines up with the Catholic and Protestant calendars, but it usually arrives a few weeks after. This column is my way of explaining it to everyone all at once.

Four centuries later, Easter's date remains divisive. Some church leaders want that to change Western churches adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the ...

This is the day that all Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christians celebrate Pascha around the world. This includes the Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Romanian, and Bulgarian Orthodox Churches.

Eastern Orthodox Christians usually celebrate Easter later than Catholic and Protestant churches, because they use a different method of calculating the date for the holy day that marks Christ’s ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on his fellow Ukrainians on Orthodox Easter on Sunday to unite in prayer for each other and the soldiers on the frontline, saying God -- who has a "Ukrainian ...