In many respects, the Easter celebrations of Chicago’s 350,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians this weekend mirrored ceremonies observed by millions of other area Christians three weeks ago. But in ...

Pope Leo XIV received members of a delegation from the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in a June 28 audience.

Essentially the Orthodox Church shares much with the other Christian Churches in the belief that God revealed himself in Jesus Christ, and a belief in the incarnation of Christ, his crucifixion ...

Eastern Orthodox Christians calculate "Pascha," or Easter, differently than Western Christians. Skip to content. NOWCAST Pittsburgh's Action News 4 at 6am.

In Eastern Orthodox churches, Easter is also known as Pascha. That's the Greek word for "Passover," the Jewish holiday Jesus celebrated the night before his Crucifixion (The Last Supper was also a ...

For many Christians, Easter was celebrated this year on March 31. But for Eastern Orthodox Christians, the celebration of Jesus Christ's Resurrection occurs more than a month later, on May 5 ...

MINERSVILLE – Members of Eastern Rite Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches celebrated a major holy day Thursday as they observed the Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord. In St. Nicholas Ukra… ...

Kaak (KAH-yak) A crown-shaped Middle Eastern cookie, made from semolina and dates, that symbolizes the crown of thorns placed on Jesus before his death. Sophia's family makes these each Easter ...

Though unique historical circumstances in the East led the Orthodox Churches to liberalize their practice and thereby distance themselves from the explicit teaching of Jesus Christ, the Catholic ...