The countdown to the Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, the most important religious feast of the year, started on March 3, 2025, when Greece celebrated “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean Monday.” The date ...

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Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

All fifth Sundays are a joint service of the two churches with communion rotating between the Episcopal tradition and the ...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...

Icon of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Public Domain St. Patrick’s Day may be widely associated with Roman Catholic traditions, but a Greek Orthodox church in Grevena, northern Greece, has ...

That was the question I found myself grappling with on Wednesday after seeing a video of what appeared to be more than 1,000 ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students dancing and chanting: “We do not ...

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, ...

After thousands of Gazans took to the streets in a rare display of defiance against the Hamas terror group, a strategic ...

President Donald Trump's efforts to deport foreign students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations are getting ...