The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, a solar calendar that was used by the Roman Empire. This year, Easter and Eastern Orthodox Easter fall on the same date, according to The Old ...

The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, a solar calendar that was used by the Roman Empire. This year, Easter and Eastern Orthodox Easter fall on the same date, according to The Old ...

Four centuries later, Easter's date remains divisive. Some church leaders want that to change Western churches adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the ...

A boy gathers plastic eggs during the annual Easter Egg hunt in Village Park on March 30, ... Easter and Eastern Orthodox Easter fall on the same date, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

This year, Easter and Eastern Orthodox Easter fall on the same date, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. “Easter is a “movable feast,” so it doesn’t happen on the same date from year ...

In Eastern Orthodox churches, Easter is also known as Pascha. That's the Greek word for "Passover," the Jewish holiday Jesus celebrated the night before his Crucifixion (The Last Supper was also a ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — This year, Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same date — an occurrence that is increasingly rare but that some seek to make permanent.

Easter Sunday may still be more than two months away, but the Easter season kicks off in less than a month with the arrival of Ash Wednesday.. Last year, Ash Wednesday 2024 fell on Valentine’s ...