Easter is an important day for those of the Christian faith. It can fall on a different date from year to year, depending on the moon cycle.

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

In Eastern Orthodox Christianity ... The events of the stations of the cross followed, ultimately leading to the crucifixion. He was then buried in a tomb, and on Easter Sunday this tomb was ...

While many denominations use the Gregorian calendar, the Eastern Orthodox Church uses the Julian ... services to pray and be anointed with a cross of ash on their foreheads and signal their ...

The image in question — which was taken in the same year as Russia's annexation of Crimea — shows Savchenko on a busy Russian street wearing a black cassock and pectoral cross while holding a ...

Good Friday is the day Christ was sacrificed on the cross and died at Calvary ... also called the Paschal Full Moon. The Eastern Orthodox Church follows a Julian calendar instead of the typical ...

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A religious service at the city cemetery was led by clergy from the country’s Orthodox Church, while Red Cross and emergency personnel were present to support grieving families. Ahead of the fun ...

Thursday’s religious service at the cemetery in Kocani was led by clergy from the country’s Orthodox Church, while Red Cross and emergency personnel were present to support grieving families.