Plymouth — As parishioners in their Easter Sunday best held white candles and chanted at the Nativity of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church, the priest spoke in his sermon about the power and ...

For the nearly two-thirds of Ukrainians who identify as Orthodox Christians, Easter is known as Velykden, meaning “Great Day” in Ukrainian. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine calculates the date of Easter ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (RNS) — The small wooden church of the Ukrainian community in Bucharest overflowed with more than 300 Ukrainian refugees and members of the diaspora living in the Romanian capital, ...

Father Volodymyr Yavorskyi, right, prays during divine liturgy at the Saint John the Baptist Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Portland in late February, just a couple of days after learning about the ...

KYIV, Ukraine — The sun came out as Ukrainians marked Orthodox Easter in the capital, Kyiv, on Sunday with prayers for those fighting on the front lines and others trapped beyond them in places like ...

Under a cloudless blue sky, a woman in a yellow dress held a basket of freshly baked sweet bread known as “paska,” eggs dyed with onion skin into a deep crimson, cheese, butter, pork fat and kielbasa, ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky made a video address to Ukrainians on Orthodox Easter, saying Russia's all-out war "cannot erase us, our values, our traditions, and our holidays." Ukraine's Orthodox ...

KYIV (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on his fellow Ukrainians on Orthodox Easter on Sunday to unite in prayer for each other and the soldiers on the frontline, saying God -- who has a ...

In a move that could lead to Catholics and Orthodox celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at the same time, the spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians has confirmed his ...

Centuries of dispute between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches on how to calculate the date of Easter may come to an end if Pope Francis’ latest appeal is implemented. Meeting Nov. 19 with ...

An orthodox Ukrainian priest blesses believers as they collect traditional cakes and painted eggs prepared for an Easter celebration during a religious service at a church in Bucha, on the outskirts ...