Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

Church. But ask an Orthodox Christian, especially a Greek one with a long memory? “Outreach” isn’t quite the word they would use. It felt more like taking advantage of people caught between a rock and ...

Stamos, Menounos and 'CSI: NY' star Melina Kanakaredes played a ... The trio played a Greek Orthodox game called Tsougrisma, a tradition observed in Greek culture where players crack red eggs ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Cardinal Kevin Farrell performed one of the most solemn acts in his position as cardinal chamberlain, or camerlengo in Italian, of the Roman Catholic Church, when he ...

As Pope, he made great efforts to heal the thousand-year rift with the Eastern Orthodox Church. In recognition, for the first time since the Great Schism of 1054, the Patriarch of Constantinople ...

Easter Sunday services will not go on as planned at Saint Edmund Church in Queens, following a fire on Saturday afternoon. Video shows heavy smoke and flames shooting out of the beloved Breezy ...

A Catholic church in Queens was engulfed in flames less than 24 hours before worshippers were set to gather for Easter Sunday mass. The fire broke out at Saint Edmund Church of the Holy Trinity ...

The Epitaphio (the symbolic funeral bier of Christ) during a Good Friday at Greek Orthodox Church of St. Athanasios at Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, April, 2015 Source: AAP Similarities greater than ...

Panagia Vefa, an Orthodox Church where people of all faiths go to make a wish. Video screenshot. Noah Amir Arjomand/You Tube Panagia Vefa is a Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul where, on the first day ...

New York City Council boss and mayoral hopeful Adrienne Adams helped funnel millions of dollars to her Queens church and its affiliated non-profits — part of the powerful political machine of ...

This year’s annual Holy Fire ceremony, which precedes Orthodox ... altar of the Church — before continuing to the Armenian Side Altar. At 11:00 a.m., the tomb was ceremonially sealed. Around 12:20 p.m ...