One theory suggests eggs were forbidden during Lent, leading people to paint them until permitted to eat them on Easter to commemorate the end of their fasting. In the Orthodox tradition ...

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic observances overlap only every three to four years thanks to different church calendars — and different lunar cycle calculations.

In the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic traditions ... and the loser peels and eats theirs. Today’s Easter eggs come in all shades — from neon-dyed plastic eggs to intricately painted pysanky ...

Video. Preparations for Orthodox Easter are underway at the Bachkovo Monastery in southern Bulgaria, the second largest and one of the oldest in the country.

What follows is the egg tapping on Easter Sunday, in religious terms symbolic of new life and representative of the tomb cracking open when Christ was resurrected. An Orthodox nun arranges fresh ...

Blase Cardinal Cupich reminded the faithful to keep fresh in their minds Christ's Resurrection as they go through their ...