Orthodox Easter is celebrated later, in keeping with the Eastern Christian church’s calendar. The holiday is celebrated locally and by those in our SCU community, as well. The Greek Orthodox community ...

The vibrant red color of the Easter eggs is no accident. In Greek Orthodox tradition, red symbolizes the blood of Christ shed ...

(WWLP) – Sunday marks the celebration of Greek Orthodox Easter! The religious holiday ... but there are some differences in traditions. In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the preparations begin ...

In either tradition, she says, Easter is about coming together as ... including followers of the Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and Macedonian Orthodox faith. Credit: LOUISE BEAUMONT/Getty ...

Worshippers attended the Easter midnight service in Georgia's ... with the Holy Fire in the crypt of the Holy Sepulchre by Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, to symbolise the resurrection ...

Two churches in the Greek town of Vrontados were lit up on Saturday night, as they fired streams of rockets at each other as part of an Orthodox Easter tradition. Throughout the annual "rocket war ...

The Epitaphio (the symbolic funeral bier of Christ) during a Good Friday at Greek Orthodox Church of St. Athanasios at Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, April, 2015 Source: AAP ...