In many countries, Easter is still the day of days. But in America, we're all about Christmas -- divested, mostly, of its religious trappings.

Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol of ...

What is the origin of Easter eggs? Katie Morrow, CC BY-NC-ND Brent Landau, The University of Texas at Austin The date of ...

At the risk of sounding like the Grinch Who Stole Bank Holidays, my heart shrinks to a walnut at the thought of today’s ...

Members of some Nigerians churches do not join other Christians to celebrate the Easter celebration, which commemorate the ...

Easter, which celebrates Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, is Christianity’s most important holiday. [...] ...

EOSTRE: The naming of the celebration seems to go back to a pre-Christian goddess in England who was celebrated at beginning of spring. STOCK PHOTO ...

Pagan Origins and the Name Eostre Easter is believed to have originated as a pagan festival celebrating the arrival of spring ...

Buried deep in one of my photo albums is a picture of me and my brothers sometime in the early 1970s standing in starched, ...

I could not possibly let this Sunday go by without telling all of you, who continue to read this little section of the newspaper, that I hope your Easter will be a beautiful one. And why shouldn’t it ...

As the presumed anniversary of the day of the Crucifixion, Good Friday had for ages been solemnly observed throughout ...

Where does the Easter Bunny come from? As Christians probably already know, the Bible makes no mention of a mythical hare who ...