Easter is later than usual this year because of the way Christians calculate the timing of the holiday. The holiday with ...

When determining the date of Easter, the church uses what’s known as “ecclesiastical dates,” with the spring equinox always ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

Though Easter candy, decorations and merchandise are hitting store shelves across the country, the holiday is still several ...

This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025, and ends after nightfall on Sunday, April 20. The eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover commemorates the ...

The celebration in New Orleans will take place a little later than usual in 2025. We take a look at why the date changes each ...

To help ease confusion, the Christian church uses a Computus table to determine the date of Easter. This year, the “Paschal Full Moon” date is April 13, and as a result Easter is on April 20.

Here’s when Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter 2025 are and why the dates they fall on change every year. Easter Sunday sometimes falls in late April, because the holiday is not tied to ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning ... uses a Computus table to determine the date of Easter. This year, the “Paschal Full Moon” date is April 13 ...

This year, Easter will take place on Sunday, April 20. That is actually one of the latest possible dates that the holiday can occur, but what determines when the holiday is observed? Most of the ...