With his approval ratings plummeting ahead of the June 2026 parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is ...

With his approval ratings plummeting ahead of the June 2026 parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is targeting the Catholicos of All Armenians. He wrongly assumes he can court public ...

The Great Lent is one of the four fasting seasons of the Orthodox Church. The Great Lent is considered abstaining from something one cherishes to eat, like the traditional Ketfo (a bowl of finely ...

Christians in the Coptic Orthodox Church prepare for Lent by feasting. For ten days before the Great Lent begins, we consume the food from which we’ll soon abstain.

Halkias added that the origins of what his church calls "Great Lent" go back to the first ... For the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians, the Lenten observance differs somewhat from that of ...

Eastern Orthodox churches observe Lent or Great Lent. Lent for Eastern Orthodox churches begins on Monday (called Clean Monday), but Ash Wednesday is not observed.

Eastern Orthodox churches take Lent seriously ... Great Lent, he said, is a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, self-examination and repentance that leads up to the celebration of Pascha, ...

Orthodox Christians typically say "Pascha" when referring to Easter. ... colored hard-cooked eggs — all foods not eaten during the fasting season of Great Lent.

As the Catholic Church in the Holy Land entered Holy Week by literally retracing the steps of Jesus’ passion, the Orthodox Churches took their first steps into Lent. Monday, June 16, 2025 A ...

Archpriest John Whiteford of St. Jonah Orthodox Church in Spring, Texas, describes "Clean Monday" and the customs of Orthodox Christianity during the season of Lent leading up to Easter.