when it was proposed to align the liturgical calendar with the civil calendar. Most Orthodox Churches adopted what is known as the “new” calendar, but some, including the Russian Orthodox ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

State — See the Calendar of Legal Holidays for State Employees. RF — Employees required to work on a holiday will receive holiday leave credit. Time off should be scheduled when convenient for the ...

The different services are emblematic of the starkly divided approaches to the High Holidays that American Jews will experience this year. While for Orthodox synagogues, services will largely be held ...

In Ethiopia, various festivals attract numerous tourists in this month of January. The most popular holiday throughout the country that ... is primarily a function in the purview of the Ethiopian ...

Though the law recognizes both Martin Luther King Day and Inauguration Day as federal holidays, this does not mean that individuals working for private businesses are required to have two days of ...

Orthodox Armenian Christians celebrated Christmas in Bethlehem on Saturday with a midnight mass. For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations have been somber and muted, in ...

Banks are closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month and are open on the first and third Saturdays of every month (also fifth in some cases), as per the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) ...

In a recent analysis by the Institute for Hybrid Warfare Studies "OCTOPUS" It reveals how Serbia uses religious holidays, such as Orthodox Christmas, as platforms to reinforce political and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day will take place on Monday, and as it is a federal holiday, students will be out of school. After that, there are only three breaks students have before summer vacation ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an ... and Easter Monday being celebrated as public holidays. The date of Easter here is calculated using a modified Julian calendar versus the Gregorian ...