What Is Greek Orthodox Easter? 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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — While many have already celebrated Easter and Passover, those in the Orthodox community have not. Their lesser-known holiday, Orthodox Easter, is Sunday, May 5th. You may know it ...

Katerina Tsihlis, 8, lights a candle in front of an icon of the Holy Trinity before the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Chuch’ s Service of Lamentation marking the death of Christ on Holy Friday, May 3, ...

Holy Week Easter book in Greek and English on opposing pages The Akathist Hymn in Greek and English on opposing pages Holy Week Easter Hymnal with Music in Greek and English Essential Books in Greek ...

Many of us will be celebrating Easter on March 31st this year and are already shopping for Easter basket stuffers and gifts. The same isn’t true for folks who follow the Orthodox calendar, however. In ...

The religious holiday celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and is observed as the holiest day by both Orthodox Christians and non-orthodox Christians. In Orthodox Christianity, Easter will ...

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. Most ...

Watch live as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, leads the Easter Sunday liturgy in Istanbul, Turkey.

For Christians around the world, Easter is a joyous holiday celebrating Jesus' resurrection. Commemorating the possibility of eternal life, many consider it the most important day in Christianity. But ...

This year, Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians will mark Easter on the same day, Sunday, April 20. The shared date is relatively rare due to the different calendars used by Western and ...