Easter can be celebrated by eating together as a family, and people often eat fish on Good Friday to remember the food Jesus shared with his followers. On Easter Sunday people might go on an ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday being celebrated as public holidays. The ...

(If you don’t take your palm cross home, you can make a cross together from thin card instead.) Good Friday - the Friday before Easter Sunday. Some churches do special activities for families with ...

Amid signs of changes and more religious inclusivity in the country, church leaders in Bangladesh called Oct. 17, 2024, for Easter Sunday to be a public holiday. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) DHAKA, ...

The Easter season begins with Lent for both Catholics and Orthodox, though the dates of Lent vary with those of Easter since it is always 40 days before Easter Sunday. Just before Lent, carnival ...

Orthodox Easter occurs anywhere from mid-April to early May. Easter is celebrated in Cyprus as the holiest day of the Christian year and the whole of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday till Easter Sunday, is ...

It truly was a sight to see. While following the crowd to their destinations for each age range, children were supposed to wait until an Easter-related song called “Bunny Hop” sounded ...

Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), Udaya Gammanpila, yesterday (14) called on the government to release two unpublished committee reports on the Easter Sunday attacks within a week. Gammapila ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Most commonly, Easter is understood to include Good Friday and Easter Sunday, which are three days apart. However Easter truly refers to ...

By Tuesday morning, however, the rebels managed to get a damaged transmitter working, and they began to send out messages in Morse ... and reads: “On Easter Sunday night, 23rd April, 1916 ...

The Princess of Wales is continuing her steady return to royal duties as she prepares to appear at two remembrance events ...