The importance of Easter to Christians cannot be understated. After all, the festival commemorates the day that Jesus rose from the dead, conquering death and offering eternal salvation to all for all ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio church has apologized for an Easter lesson that encouraged students to slap and cut a pastor and spit on him - incidents that were captured in videos and posted online.

While the Easter Bunny has become the cultural mascot of the holiday, some local educators are hoping that by planting the seeds early, children will grow up not only knowing the Christian meaning ...

PATASKALA, OH — An Ohio church is apologizing for an "inappropriate" Easter lesson in which a pastor urged students to spit on him, slap him and cut him with a steak knife. Impact City Church lead ...

An Oklahoma City church had an outdoor Easter worship service in 2021 that was so popular that the house of worship will host a similar service on Sunday. Putnam City Baptist Church's "Easter Outdoors ...

Flowers are springing up, birds are singing, and all around us, we sense that we’re finally crawling out of the gloom of the deadly global pandemic. We have lost loved ones, income, businesses, and ...

The young people lined up as if they were preparing to receive communion, but instead of accepting bread and wine from the associate pastor at Impact City Church in Pataskala, Ohio, they spit in his ...

Many of my childhood Easter Sundays were spent visiting my grandparents on Long Island. Without fail, the Easter baskets my brother and sister and I received were identical to those of the previous ...