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, ...

CLEVELAND – Easter 2025 will fall on one of the latest dates possible: April 20. That’s nearly three weeks later than the date from 2024. The reason for the late date is that Easter is a ...

Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, will kick off a late start to the 2025 Lenten season — from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. Unlike many other holidays, the date of Easter changes every year.

Before the Council of Nicaea in 325, different Christian communities celebrated Easter on different dates ... the end of the liturgy in giving their blessing to the crowd. The theme of the ...

Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a proposal for a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and the East.

The bar area at the new Blessings Family Restaurant in Colonie, with co-owner Sean Willcoxon at far left. He and a business partner recently took over what for decades was called Blessing’s ...

Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a proposal for a common date for celebrating Easter in the West ... of the ...

Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion on the cross, per BBC.

the BBC usually hosts special programming for the Holy Week and Easter, which will include a live worship, an interview with the Bishop of Dover, Pope Francis’s Easter blessing, and more.