Know the traditions and spiritual significance of Pascha, the Orthodox Christian celebration of Easter. Learn its unique date ...

Archaeologists found another example of a crucified heel 49 years later in Cambridgeshire, England, in a grave in an ancient ...

JERUSALEM (OSV News) – For the second year in a row, few foreign pilgrims were in attendance at the traditional Palm Sunday ...

For Christians, Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating events in the last days of Jesus Christ’s life. The Scriptures say that on Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into ...

Palm Sunday services at the Royal Poinciana Chapel, the Basilica of St. Edward and the Episcopal Church of ...

The small town celebrated a new tradition with its inaugural Easter Holy Week Parade. Families lined Main Street on Saturday ...

Held between sunset on Holy Saturday and sunrise on Easter Sunday, the service portrays the movement from the dark despair of ...

The empty tomb ... Christ our Lord. Amen. "... Suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire ...

Five grains of incense inserted into the candle in the form of a cross recall the aromatic spices with which His Sacred Body was prepared for the tomb ... fire, symbolizing our eternal life in ...

which is meant to symbolize key moments from when Jesus Christ was condemned to death by the Romans, up until his burial in the tomb. On Saturday, church staff and volunteers will redress the ...