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

Orthodox Easter is associated primarily with the "Eastern" world ... meat by-products, poultry, eggs, and dairy products for the entire Lent period. The period of fasting is aimed at encouraging ...

Dyeing eggs for Easter is a tradition with roots in ancient ... dyed to mark the end of the fasting period. In the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic traditions, according to The Root, eggs are ...

Eastern Orthodox churches — such as the Greek ... But they can certainly receive the blessed bread at the end and the Easter eggs that we distribute at the end that are painted in red to ...

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

"They would get double the amount of Easter eggs," she ... The Ethiopian Orthodox Church is a significant branch of African Christianity, separate to other forms of Eastern Orthodoxy.

The Easter cake and painted eggs will be brought to churches on Saturday for a special blessing by the priest. While Eastern Orthodox and Western (as Roman Catholicism was known) Christianity ...