GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — While many have already celebrated Easter and Passover, those in the Orthodox community have not. Their lesser-known holiday, Orthodox Easter, is Sunday, May 5th. You may know it ...

Greek Easter biscuits, or Koulourakia, bring out the sweet and golden side of holiday baking. These traditional Greek cookies are super super important during Greek Easter celebrations. Really, ...

What Is Greek Orthodox Easter? Greek Orthodox Easter is the conclusion of Greek Orthodox's "Great Lent," a strict 40-day period of fasting. Great Lent ends on Lazarus Saturday, which is when Orthodox ...

On Easter Sunday, Katerina "Kathy" Vainas, her sister Angie Barakos and at least 30 members of their family will enjoy roasted lamb, sweet bread and crack red-colored eggs with one another, ...

As Easter approached at the end of March 2024, we looked into the many origin theories of the Christian holiday. The occasion celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his ...

Easter is the most important day of the Greek religious calendar. As a result, there’s no feast like a Greek Easter feast. When I was a child, we’d spend the day in my grandparents’ Greek-Cypriot ...

For many Christians, Easter was celebrated this year on March 31. But for Eastern Orthodox Christians, the celebration of Jesus Christ's Resurrection occurs more than a month later, on May 5. Most ...