Easter

Easter is the time of year when Christians around the world commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's also a time of year associated with ...

(CNN) The Rev. Fred Robinson was about to start Sunday morning worship with his church staff when he heard a stunning public confession.

Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the "senseless" war in Ukraine and in other armed conflicts raging in the world.

On what is supposed to be Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the "senseless" war in Ukraine and ...

Notable events included a 6 a.m. sunrise Mass outdoors near the waterfront in South Boston, and a joyous, hug-filled service at St. Peter Claver, a historically ...

Easter is the time of year when Christians around the world commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's also a time of year associated with ...

For the first time in eight years, Assumption Church is holding its first Easter Sunday Mass — at full capacity.

A few aspects of Easter, like eggs and bunnies, were adopted from ancient pagan rituals that celebrated the resurrection of life in the spring.

Church-goers have had to attend the Easter Sunday service via zoom due to COVID, but this year they were able to attend in person.

Baskets filled with artistically adorned paska, an eastern European Easter bread, were blessed on Sunday morning at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary ...

Senior Pastor Kirk Gilchrist says Easter Sunday is one of the busiest, yet happiest gatherings of the year. Advertisement. “It's just a great day of celebration ...

Okanagan volunteers baked up a storm in preparation for a Ukrainian Easter bake sale on Sunday. Local vendors offered what they could to raise money ...

Easter was both a religious event and a chance for some fun in Vancouver. Archival photos show the history of the spring holiday in the city.

Before the church bells had a chance to toll and announce Easter Sunday, air raid sirens woke those sleeping in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv just ...

For the first time in three years, churches across Saskatchewan were able to welcome full crowds of worshipers on Easter without COVID-19 restrictions.

Most people are aware that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated on Easter Sunday, but why Easter Monday is a bank holiday is often not as clear.

Two teenage boys killed in Pittsburgh in one of at least three shootings over the weekend, including two in South Carolina.

Police said that at least 10 people were injured in the incident, with two male victims, both juveniles, pronounced dead in a local hospital. Other gunshot ...

During Easter weekend in the U.S. shootings took place in Portland, Ore., at a party in Pittsburgh and in two separate incidents in South Carolina.

Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a shooting at a nightclub early Sunday that wounded at least nine people. It was the second mass shooting in ...

Authorities in South Carolina say they are investigating shooting at a club in Hampton County early Sunday that left at least nine people injured.

By Jerry Parmentier. Trinity Baptist Church. Easter is the time of year when we as Christians celebrate the completion of God's redemptive plan to rescue ...

Jesus Christ is risen today, hallelujah. It's Resurrection Sunday! It is the day that Christians everywhere celebrate Jesus rising from death to life on the ...

The event will take place at 2 p.m. and run along Queen Street East as well as a short portion of Nursewood Road, Woodbine Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard ...

Jill and I join fellow Christians around the world in celebrating Easter Sunday — a day of joy and hope, of renewal and rebirth. Once again, Holy Week has.

Today, Christians in Canada and around the world will celebrate Easter and commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Premier John Horgan has issued the following statement in honour of Easter: “This weekend, Easter is being celebrated by Christians in British Columbia and ...