For the 600 families who attend Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Lancaster, Easter is referred to as Pascha — Passover — a holy day whose deep significance is not limited to one special Sunday or ...

POTTSTOWN — The holiest days on the Orthodox Christian Church calendar will be celebrated this year with Easter Sunday on May 5. Orthodox Christians typically say “Pascha” when referring to Easter.

Last weekend we celebrated Easter and Passover. Now Pascha is upon us. The Rev. Gregory-Francis Des Marais of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Albany spoke with Robert Brill and shared these ...

Pascha is the day of day within Orthodoxy. "It's the greatest feast of them all." said Father Stephen Mathewes of Holy Resurrection Orthodox christian Church in Johnson City, Tenn. Photo courtesy of ...

For many members of the Greek Orthodox Church, the earliest memories of church are from Holy Week. "I know a man who remembers when he was 4 years old and the church was completely darkened and the ...

Back in the days when the world was not so small, the churches of the east and those of the west settled on different ways to calculate when Easter would be celebrated in the spring. Two formulas ...

SAINT CLAIR – Families celebrated the transforming power of Pascha, or Easter, on Sunday at St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church. The Rev. Jeff L. Zias lead the Feast of Feasts service at the ...

“There's a dialogue between the clergy and the choir. So there's that sort of dance,” said Father Michael Trefon, the parish priest. (Sam Elliot/KYUK) On Monday, Orthodox Christians in Bethel ...