That brings us to 2025, which will see a remarkable coincidence: Both the Eastern and Western will hold Easter on the same ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on ...

Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic ... Easter in the West and the East. Noting that in 2025 the date coincides on the West's Gregorian ...

to Christians worldwide during an ecumenical vespers service Saturday evening as momentum builds for Catholics and Orthodox to consider celebrating Easter ... that “the Catholic Church does ...

Most Eastern Christians did not adopt the new calendar, leading to a situation where Easter ... the Catholic Church would accept it. The ecumenical prayer service began with Pope Francis praying ...

Pope Francis reaffirms Catholic Church's willingness to accept a common date for Easter in the West and East, highlighting ...

Orthodox Christians calculate Easter using the Julian Calendar, and it often falls later in the year. For 2025, though, Orthodox Easter also will fall on April 20. The dates for Orthodox Easter ...

Unlike many festivals and celebrations which have a set date (Christmas and Halloween, for example), the date of Easter can range by over a month year to year ...

The Old Farmer's Almanac explains that Easter Sunday changes dates each year because it depends on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar ... for Catholic prayer and meditation. Eastern Orthodox ...

The date of Easter and its related holidays also depend on if you’re Eastern Orthodox or not. The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, a solar calendar that was used by the Roman ...

to Christians worldwide during an ecumenical vespers service Saturday evening, as momentum builds for Catholics and Orthodox to consider celebrating Easter ... that “the Catholic Church does ...