For the first time in almost 10 years, Christians of all stripes will be celebrating Easter, which commemorates the ...

On Easter Sunday, Katerina "Kathy" Vainas ... sweet bread and crack red-colored eggs with one another, proclaiming Christ has risen. With only a two-year age difference, the sisters share a ...

Pope Francis, who is still recovering from pneumonia, was not present at the Easter morning Mass but gave the Easter blessing ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox ... see “Christ is risen!” The traditional reply is, “He is risen indeed!” There are also fireworks ...

Orthodox Christians filled a Jerusalem Church to celebrate the Holy Light ceremony, before it is transported to Greece to ...

A tradition that Greeks have adopted for Easter is sending glowing hot-air balloons into the night sky in celebration of ...

Pope Francis has made greater unity with the Orthodox a priority of his pontificate; he has especially expressed his desire ...

On Sunday, 40 close family and friends will gather at her uncle Tasso's home to celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter ... be 40 days to duplicate what Jesus has done, but according to the Ethiopian ...

The Epitaphio (the symbolic funeral bier of Christ) during a Good Friday at Greek Orthodox Church of ... a culinary specialist from Sydney, has been baking Easter cakes for more than 30 years ...