MOORHEAD — To those on the outside, it’s just a candle. To parishioners, it’s an Easter, or Paschal, candle with significance. But to Linda and Swede Stelzer, it’s a labor of love. For 35 years, ...

The pontiff, prelates, and other faithful also clutching candles appeared as slow-moving points of light in darkness, part of a procession symbolising Christians’ belief that Jesus triumphed over ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Inside Greece’s Orthodox churches, candles are a symbol of faith and simplicity, slender and traditionally made of beeswax, and placed in large candleholders filled with sand.

(AP) VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, ushered in Christianity's most joyous celebration with an Easter vigil service Saturday night, but voiced fears that mankind is ...

Orthodox Christian believers observed Easter on Sunday, a week later than the religious holiday was celebrated this year by Western churches. In Russia, about 4.3 million people took part in an ...

A 64-year-old parishioner at a Bronx Catholic church was attacked while trying to stop the theft of an ornate Easter candle on Christmas Eve, cops announced Thursday.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Each year, on the night before Easter Sunday Rev. Michael Martine, pastor of Holy Rosary R.C. Church, leads the Easter Vigil into the South Beach church. The Easter Vigil, also ...

Orthodox Christians around the globe are celebrating Easter today, with thousands lighting candles at services in their community. In Istanbul, Turkey, people attend an Easter Resurrection Service at ...

Veronica, my now 12-year-old daughter, was 5 months old when we went to my in-laws’ farm for her first Easter. We went to the Vigil at Immaculate Conception Church in Corning, Calif. I was not sure ...

An employee holds candles that resemble COVID-19 test kits, vaccination syringes at a store in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Greeks celebrate Easter with other Orthodox Christians on ...

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