If you're wondering why the Easter date changes every year and how it's determined, the answer is tied to the moon and the spring equinox.

Lent begins today, Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18. Here's when it ends, when Easter will fall in 2026 and why it overlaps with ...

Several churches in the Jacksonville area are hosting traditional Friday Fish Fry events during the Lenten season. See locations and dates.

Easter 2026 is approaching. Here's when Easter, Ash Wednesday, Lent and Passover will be, and why the dates change each year.

As Christians around the world observe Lent in preparation for Easter, some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Ethiopia marked Orthodox Christmas Eve on Tuesday with a large candlelight ceremony in Addis Ababa, where thousands gathered in Meskel Square for prayers, hymns and a midnight Mass. Worshippers, many ...

At 12, Kylie Ora Lobell decided she no longer believed in God. Many years later, as she chronicles in her new book, she met ...

Last 2 February, Cardinal Mario Zenari left the apostolic nunciature in Damascus, thus bringing to a close one of the Holy See’s most difficult diplomatic missions in the Middle East. After 18 years, ...

The United States will recognize 11 public holidays this year at the federal level. That’s slightly below the global median: Across 190 members of the United Nations we analyzed, the typical country ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended an early Wednesday Russian Orthodox Christmas service and hailed his troops' "holy mission" to defend Russia, pairing the ceremony with a holiday address on ...

Here, you need to try this,” says Joe Faissal, handing me a plump sumo orange he bought a few minutes earlier at Sam’s Club.

US Orthodox leaders call for alignment of Easter with Catholics and Protestants to honor Nicaea and strengthen Christian ...