Eid al-Fitr is a special occasion for Muslims. It is a time to celebrate with family and loved ones and travel. In Turkey, ...

In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In Muslim homes, people are gathering every evening ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

Easter is the highest holy day on the Christian calendar, but for First United Methodist Church’s pastor, Chip Strickland, it ...

In this combination photo Pope Francis walks past flowers as he celebrates Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 16, 2017, and Members of the Ukrainian community in Sacramento, Calif.

By TR Robertson The month of April is filled with some significant dates important to Jewish and Christian religious beliefs and an important date for some hard-working members of ...

The calendar date for Easter changes from year to year because the religious holiday is generally observed on the first ...

Pope Francis, who is recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, intends to give his Easter Sunday blessing, the ...

Both religions’ traditions encourage giving up physical things, such as food, drink, pleasures or indulgences, in order to ...

For centuries, churches have used different methods to calculate the date of Easter. Rarely do they coincide. The search for ...

Lent is a time of preparation and self-recognition before Easter. According to the United States Conference of Catholic ...