Easter is the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead on the third day after his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary. Due to the COVID-19 ...

For we have grown into union with Christ through a death like His, we shall also be united with Him in the ... hope and opened their eyes to what the Scriptures foretold: that first He must ...

Easter Saturday is known as the The Resurrection or “Anastasis”. Preparations for the jovial dinner begin early in the morning with the cooking of the maghiritsa – a type of soup. The faithful begin ...

Lent is a period of 40 days of fasting and prayer leading up to Easter. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday ... AD 325 to keep it in line with the Jewish Passover and the Bible's timeline of Jesus' ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly ... a midnight vigil is held to herald the Resurrection of ...