Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...

Easter –– brings thoughts of new life, springtime, of freshness, of the Resurrection. This is not only a day –– not only a few weeks on the Church calendar –– but, for Christians, a way of life.

On Easter Sunday at Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ in Oak Lawn, a decades-old tradition will be revived.

The Easter season begins for many Christians with Lent leading up to Holy Week and the celebration of new life on Resurrection Sunday.

Nagpur: The holy week in the Christian calendar started with Palm Sunday and will be followed by Maundy Thursday, Good Friday (the crucifixion of Jesus Christ), Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday ...

Lent ends on Thursday, April 17. In the Christian church, Lent is a period of spiritual reflection before Easter. In Western churches, it begins on Ash Wednesday, which this year was March 5.

This year Palm Sunday, the day Christ entered Jerusalem, was April 13, a week before Easter Sunday. Catholics carried blessed palm branches into church as a welcoming gesture honoring Christ ...