Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An orthodox Ukrainian priest blesses believers as they collect traditional cakes and painted eggs prepared for an Orthodox Easter ...

For Christians around the world, Easter is a joyous holiday celebrating Jesus' resurrection. Commemorating the possibility of eternal life, many consider it the most important day in Christianity. But ...

MANCHESTER - New Hampshire’s Eastern Orthodox Christian community is celebrating the most holy time of the year. Orthodox congregations will celebrate Easter on Sunday, observing the resurrection of ...

LOS ANGELES Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them there.

But it is in the Eastern Orthodox Christian arena that Russians and Ukrainians are both united and divided by a common faith. Eastern Orthodoxy claims 79% of Russia’s population, or approximately 112 ...

Orthodox Christians in Europe, Africa and the Middle East celebrated Orthodox Easter on Sunday. But for those living in Ukraine, the holiest day on the Christian calendar was muted by a withering ...