Roman Catholic cardinals gathered Tuesday in Vatican City to prepare for the Saturday funeral of Pope Francis.

Easter event in Gallatin disrupted by a shooting; two injured and two arrested, including a gang-affiliated suspect.

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic observances overlap only every three to four years thanks to different church calendars — and different lunar cycle calculations.

Easter is one of the most important Christian holidays celebrated all over the world. While many people know it as the day Jesus rose from the dead, there are many more fun and surprising things to ...

Nowruz, the spring equinox, is celebrated as a holiday across the region and is New Year's Day on the Iranian calendar.

Easter is finally here! The festive day, feted with bunnies and colored eggs, has a variety of historical origins and is ...

Churches across the United States and abroad will celebrate Easter on Sunday, a holy day commemorating the resurrection of ...

Here are the answers to some of the questions you might have about Easter: ...

An egg, with its hard shell and hidden life within, became a powerful metaphor for the tomb from which Christ emerged.

The first Easter egg hunt is believed to have taken place in Germany around the 17th century. Martin Luther, a Protestant ...

Was Jesus God? Was He crucified? Did He Rise from the dead? Every other detail about Jesus's life, ministry, arrest, trial ...

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