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 ...

The hope Christians have is not a sign of avoiding reality but of trusting in the power of God to defeat sin and death as the ...

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 ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... The crowd offers the salutation “Christós Anésti” (Christ has risen) to each other, which is responded to with the ...

In the Greek Orthodox religion ... "Christ has no more risen than that egg is red." The egg immediately turned red to prove the Emperor wrong. Whatever the origin of the story, these days to mark the ...

“Χριστός Ανέστη” και “Αληθώς Ανέστη” (which means “Christ has Risen” and ... joy of the Resurrection. Greek Orthodox Easter is a unique experience ...

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 ...