Nothing is more quintessentially Greek than a large, loud function with too much food. And, in my big Greek family, any celebration that doesn’t end with everyone sweating from Greek dancing or a lamb ...

Pietro Mascagni was just 27 years old when he composed Cavalleria Rusticana, a one-act opera that met with immediate success at its premiere on May 17, 1890, at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. Inspired ...

Stamos, Menounos and 'CSI: NY' star Melina Kanakaredes played a game called Tsougrisma, where players crack red eggs at Easter Maria Menounos Maria Menounos is cracking pranks — and eggs! In ...

Part of the tradition of the Easter dawn service atop Mount Penn is dressing for a chilly morning. Families wrap themselves in blankets while wearing heavy winter coats, scarves and mittens. This year ...

April 20 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service led by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a faithful ...

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Two families of mixed Catholic and Orthodox Christian members are looking forward to celebrating Easter together on the same date in 2025 as they also hope to one day see greater unity among all ...

The alignment of Easter in Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, along with a 1,700-year anniversary, have renewed calls for a single common date. Christians around the world will celebrate ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a united celebration in 2025, for the first time in eight years. Father John Basarab, pastor of Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church, celebrates ...

This year, Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians will mark Easter on the same day, Sunday, April 20. The shared date is relatively rare due to the different calendars used by Western and ...

“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” (Psalm 133:1) Baptism by immersion or sprinkling, kneeling or standing for prayer, hymns or contemporary ...