As the service concludes, those gathered reflect on the beauty and mystical nature of Christ’s birth. They hold candles and ...

Pascha (pronounced PAHS-kuh), the Orthodox churches’ term for Easter, comes this year ... celebrated this most important Christian feast day. The Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity ...

(WWLP) – Sunday marks the celebration of Greek Orthodox Easter! The religious holiday celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and is ... in traditions. In Eastern Orthodox Christianity ...

Eastern Orthodox Churches are self-governing ... East and West were divided by the Great Schism of 1054. Off Orthodox Christians place great emphasis on worship, particularly the Divine Liturgy. By ...

While your Christmas celebrations may have ended, the holiday is not over yet. This upcoming holiday marks the end of the ...

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will celebrate Easter Vigil Liturgy at at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow MOSCOW, April 15. /TASS/. On Saturday evening, Orthodox Christians ...

LEADERS of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches are signalling their openness to setting a common date for Easter — an opportunity arising with the approaching 1700th anniversary of ...

Orthodox Christmas is celebrated by approximately 260 million people worldwide, both in majority-Orthodox countries in Eastern Europe ... the birth of Jesus Christ stretch back all the way ...

The nativity in the flesh of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, known as Christmas in the West, is one of the 12 major feast days of the liturgical year in the Eastern Orthodox Christian ...

The Orthodox church celebrates the resurrection of Christ on a different date to non-Orthodox Easter, because it uses the older Julian calendar. In a Greek Orthodox Church in Sydney, the ...

The Epitaphio (the symbolic funeral bier of Christ) during a Good Friday at Greek Orthodox Church of St. Athanasios at Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, April, 2015 Source: AAP ...