Trump in a post on his Truth Social site Sunday said he'd only use the day's original name, instead of also including ...

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.

By Sunday afternoon, families will be passing traditional meals around the table and cracking hard-boiled eggs painted red, which are synonymous with Greek Orthodox Easter. "We start the feast ...

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

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 ...

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

Lovskiy said it is customary to have the food served at Easter blessed, but in the Orthodox Church, only eggs and “kulichi” are blessed — meat cannot be brought into the church — while in ...

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 trio played a Greek Orthodox game called Tsougrisma, a tradition observed in Greek culture where players crack red eggs at Easter, symbolizing Christ's resurrection, per the American Religious ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a ... Easter twice” — doing all the usual things, like chocolate eggs, for Catholic Easter and, a few weeks later, the Greek traditions for Greek ...