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, ...

Eid al-Fitr is celebrated in Albania with much religious fervour and general merriment. The national holiday comes on the first day of the Islamic month of Shawwal, immediately following the holy ...

As a country that honours religious freedom, all employees of Christian, Muslim and Jewish religions are entitled to paid days off for a limited number of religious holidays.

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. The holiday is now blended in with the Feast of the Annunciation, and although no one really knows if 25 March was the exact date in 1821 ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. The first National Day was celebrated on 16 May 1734, a date chosen by Honore III. In 1854, Prince Charles III changed the date to 4 ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Until the end of the 17th Century, Serbia was ruled by the Ottoman Empire of Turkey. At the end of that century, the northern part of the ...

În fiecare zi de 31 August, în Moldova se sărbătorește Ziua Națională a Limbii, “Limba Noastră”, care celebrează limba moldovenească. An Data Zi Sărbători legale 2025 31 august duminică Ziua Națională ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In the days under the USSR, there used to be big parades with fireworks displays on this day in Moldova. But today, celebrations are more ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Easter week begins on Palm Sunday, which is when the Pope holds a special mass in Saint Peter’s Square in Vatican City. Even though this is ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Our Lady of Meritxell is a statue of the Virgin Mary that was long cherished by the people of Andorra. It was first graven in the 1100’s ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. After years of repression of all religions in Albania, during its dark decades of Communist rule, both Christianity and Islam have ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Montenegro voted for independence from Serbia in an EU-organised referendum on 21 May 2006. On 3 June, the parliament of Montenegro ...