As Roman Catholics and many Western churches held Easter services on April 4, Coptic Orthodox Christians will celebrate Pascha on Sunday, along with other members of the Orthodox Christian faith ...

Holy Week prayers precede Easter Sunday, which this year will be celebrated on April 19 by the Orthodox community, one week later than the Catholic Easter. Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church has ...

CAIRO – Thousands of Egyptian Christians are marking Coptic Easter at the same church that was the site of sectarian clashes weeks earlier. Worshippers, as well as Muslim figures opposed to ...

Egyptian Americans from Westchester County's Coptic community observed Easter Saturday night like many Christians: first darkness, then light. Worshipers at Virgin Mary and Saint Demiana Coptic ...

The Coptic Orthodox Church has cancelled the reception of condolences from public figures at Easter services on Sunday, Pope Tawadros announced today during his sermon as he led the Good Friday ...

Easter’s message of rebirth and renewal resonated for hundreds of Egyptian refugees who recently celebrated the holy day with the burgeoning community of Coptic Christians in Queens. St. Mary… ...

Orthodox Christians Celebrate Easter. April 23, 2006 / 2:13 PM EDT / AP ... Coptic Christians in Egypt and some 25 million Ethiopian Christians also celebrated Easter on Sunday.

A traditional Coptic Orthodox feast during Easter. (ABC News: Jostina Basta) Warak Aneb, or stuffed grape leaves, is the go-to for many Egyptian or Coptic Orthodox households.

Today, Orthodox Christians use the Julian Calendar to calculate the Easter date instead of the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced in 1582 and is used by most of the world.

In 2025, Western Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians will share a common Easter date, April 20 — for the first time since 2017. As in other years when Christianity’s central liturgical ...