Emma Stuart from Manorcunningham spent her Easter in Athens. In a special feature, she tells us how Holy Week brought ...

Christian Orthodox worshippers gathered at the the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Thursday, to mark the start of the Orthodox Easter holidays. The event is marked with the traditional ceremony ...

Two families of mixed Catholic and Orthodox Christian members are looking ... “You roll them out and spend a whole day in Holy Week making all the cookies, and then you give them to your friends ...

In a relatively rare phenomenon this year, Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and fall on the same dates for the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches. Greek Orthodox and other Eastern Orthodox churches ...

Nikas (Greek Orthodox) • It represents life after ... Nikas • Any visitors may join us at any of our Holy Week services. The best one, if someone wanted to come, would be the midnight ...

The Rev. Kostandin Tuda of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Sioux City said ... When it comes to Holy Week, which began April 13 with Palm Sunday and concludes Sunday with Easter (Pascha ...

IF JERUSALEM is to remain, as many see it, the beating heart of Christianity, then it needs its lifeblood: its Christian ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a united ... and ends the Friday before Palm Sunday, followed by Great Week (Holy Week) and Pascha. There are similarities and differences between the ...

The sacristans of the three communities that guard the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem — Greek Orthodox ... calendar would mean that Holy Week pilgrims from Western countries ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest of the Latin Church of the Holy Family in war-ravaged Gaza, told AsiaNews that Holy Week observances continue ... and charity,” Romanelli added. Many Greek ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways ... largely driven by wariness in the East about the Vatican’s supremacy. At a Holy Week service ...

Holy Week started on Sunday with Palm Sunday ... promise and redemption," according to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Holy Tuesday, celebrated on Tuesday, April 15.