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From July 2024 to June 2025, the Church had the most convert baptisms of any 12-month period in its history. The calendar ...
The Church lived out of what had already happened. With its joy in what had taken place, it looked for the coming of Jesus in the future. But the chronology of his coming was no longer decisive ...
Photo taken on April 27, 2019, at Debre Genet Medhane Alem Ethiopian Orthodox Church. ... Easter is “a day of spiritual victory,” in that jesus Christ “redeemed all mankind from sin.” ...
Easter celebrations are not quite over, as members of Eastern Orthodox Church are preparing to celebrate Greek Easter on Sunday, April 8. The two holidays commemorate the resurrection of Jesus on ...
Orthodox Easter was celebrated across the world Sunday with a fire ceremony, roasted lamb, cakes and street processions through the streets of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Protestants and Roman ...
Pilgrims inside the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher hold their candles aloft after the “Holy Fire” was ignited inside Jesus' tomb on May 4, 2024, the day before the Orthodox Christian ...
In the United States, observances vary — even within traditions. Churches in the Greek and Antiochian traditions, along with the Orthodox Church in America, observed Christmas on Dec. 25.
A lamp used to transport the "Holy Fire" from the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem to Bethlehem is carried at the lighting ceremony on May 4, 2024.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church - which claims independence but has historic ties to Moscow and faces an effective ban in pending legislation - is observing Christmas on Jan. 7. Advertisement ...
FILE - Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center, delivers the Christmas service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. While much of the world has Christmas ...