The first Easter egg hunt is believed to have taken place in Germany around the 17th century. Martin Luther, a Protestant ...

Toddlers, teens and adults alike on Friday spent time contemplating the meaning of Easter through an artistic twist on the ...

Several dozen people gathered at Saint Anthony Mary Claret Church in Southeast Fresno on Good Friday. In Spanish, the church hosted a reenactment of the stations of the cross- showing the timeline ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

Notre Dame Cathedral has reopened to large crowds for an Easter ceremony focused on the Crown of Thorns relic. Visitors and ...

In the soft haze of dawn, as the world held its breath between darkness and light, a woman walked alone toward a tomb.

DALLAS (BP) – Jeremiah Johnston says the seminal event in Christianity’s history should be raised up more often.

The Easter egg hunt is linked to the Easter Bunny in German Lutheran tradition. The Easter Bunny was originally known as the ...

The Hymn of Kassiane takes center stage on Holy Tuesday in the Orthodox Church, as Greeks move closer to the end of Lent.

Let us consider one theory about the origin of the Easter Bunny. In recent times, a popular theory is that the Easter Bunny ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories ...

We will review medieval theories of vision, visuality and materiality, and discuss the perception, reception, and use of images in various cultic settings, i.e., from Norwegian stave churches to ...