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Unlike Christmas, the date of Easter is subject to change, as its date is determined by a lunisolar calendar. So when is Easter, why does its date vary and how is it celebrated?
Easter 2025 is this Sunday, April 20. That’s super late. It feels odd to have Easter so late, right? Why isn’t it on the same day each year, like Christmas? Well, it all has to do with the ...
EASTER is an important date in the calendar for many. However, unlike Christmas which reliably falls on the same date each year, Easter hops around - and here's why.
These graphics explain why Easter Sunday changes each year based on ancient interpretations of the solar and lunar cycles.
How often do Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Easter coincide? The holidays converge about once every three to four years − they last overlapped in 2014 and 2017 and will line up again in 2028 ...
Easter comes on April 20 this year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Today, Orthodox Christians use the Julian Calendar to calculate the Easter date instead of the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced in 1582 and is used by most of the world.
What determines when Easter is each year has to do with differences between the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar.
This year, Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians will mark Easter on the same day, Sunday, April 20. The shared date is relatively rare due to the different calendars used by Western and ...
Many Iowans of the Christian faith will be busy with church, egg hunts and brunch for Easter on March 31. In 2025, the holy day jumps to late April.
Easter 2021 will fall a week earlier than Easter 2020 - here's why the date changes every year ...