This meant accepting the Pope’s authority and ending their communion with the Patriarch of Constantinople. Big groups of Orthodox believers across Eastern Europe accepted Papal authority—something the ...

This weekend, Christians of all denominations are celebrating Easter. Orthodox Christians in Germany are grateful for that, and long for more. Millions of Orthodox Christians currently live in ...

The occasion is marked across the world, with most following the Roman Catholic church or belonging to Protestant denominations celebrating Easter a week before most of their Orthodox counterparts.

April 20 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service led by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill ...

This year, Orthodox Easter will be observed on the same day as the Western one: Sunday, 20 April. The shared date is relatively rare as the churches use different calendars. Orthodox Easter is ...

President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service led by the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a faithful backer of the ...

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, ...

“The level of saturation is off the charts”, Ren Ng, a computer scientist at Berkeley, told Nature. Only five people have seen the mysterious new color — baptized ‘olo.’ But it’s like ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine ... (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Greek Catholic believers and foreigners who live in Greece take ...

Two families of mixed Catholic and Orthodox Christian members are looking forward to celebrating Easter together on the same date in 2025 as they also hope to one day see greater unity among all ...