Two families of mixed Catholic and Orthodox Christian members are looking forward to celebrating Easter together on the same ...

The alignment of Easter in Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, along with a 1,700-year anniversary, have renewed ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter ... Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox ...

Pope Francis has made greater unity with the Orthodox a priority of his pontificate; he has especially expressed his desire ...

Why the date of Easter remains divisive four centuries later - The idea of a common Easter has been discussed since the 1960s ...

Father Frans Bouwen, a leading voice in ecumenical dialogue, holds that “there are no real theological reasons” to justify ...

Usually Catholic and Protestant Easter falls a couple of weeks before Eastern Orthodox Easter, but this year all Christians ...

These graphics explain why Easter Sunday changes each year based on ancient interpretations of the solar and lunar cycles.

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic observances overlap only every three to four years thanks to different church ...

Easter will be celebrated the same day for Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox members alike. Father Kostandin Tuda of Holy ...

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