Easter is fast approaching. Here's a look at why the date of Easter changes every year and what to know about the holiday.

Easter is fast approaching. Here's a look at why the date of Easter changes every year and what else to know about the holiday.

February usually has 28 days due to a combination of historical, astronomical, and cultural factors.

Well, Christmas has come and gone. All in all, and only speaking for myself, it wasn’t a bad holiday. The celebrations were festive, people seemed to be in a cheerful mood, and the museum ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

They didn’t spread to Rome until the twelfth century ... but because eastern Christians use the Julian Calendar to calculate Easter, the celebrations occur at different times.

By Marco Elsy Ah, February. The runt of the calendar litter, the month that even the Romans couldn’t be bothered to flesh out ...

The full name of the holiday is the Baptism of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ TASS-FACTBOX. On January 19, Orthodox believers in Russia celebrate Epiphany, or the Baptism of the Lord, one of the ...

Prior to the Gregorian and even Julian calendars, Roman King Numa Pompilius (715-673 BC) set about creating a calendar with equal-length months, the University of Chicago said. "When Numa ...