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A Sunday school group performs a hymn during Good Friday service at Re'ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, in Washington, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in Washington mark Easter with prayer, joyful family celebrations

Dressed head to toe in white, hundreds of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians packed tightly into Washington, D.C.’s DSK Mariam Church to sing hymns in the ancient language Ge’ez, to pray, and to stand vigil as their Easter Sunday unfolded.

Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a service at St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Patriarch Filaret, who fought for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church, dies at 97

Workers clear rubble and salvage stones from the ruins of St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church, damaged in the 2023 earthquake, in the city of Antakya, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Murat Kocabas)

Architect aims to rebuild a church and help restore a quake-hit Turkish city’s multicultural past

High priests ride in a boat as faithful celebrate Timket, the Ethiopian Epiphany, on lake Dembel, in Batu, Ethiopia, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Amanuel Sileshi)

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate Epiphany to mark baptism of Jesus

Fireworks and laser lights illuminate the sky over the Belgrade Tower just before midnight, for the Orthodox Christians New Year that Serbs celebrate on Jan. 14, according to the Julian calendar, in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbians mark Orthodox Christian New Year according to old tradition

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in Washington celebrate Easter

Hundreds of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians packed tightly into Washington, D.C.’s DSK Mariam Church to stand vigil as their Easter Sunday unfolded. The celebration of Christ’s resurrection is observed a week after Catholic and Protestant Easter. (AP Video: Jessie Wardarski)

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Georgians with national flags take part in a religious procession to the Holy Trinity Cathedral to mark Orthodox Christmas in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

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A person lights a candle during service at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner)

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Pope Leo XIV, left, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians arrive for an Ecumenical prayer service at archaeological excavations of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian Saint Neophytos Basilica, in Iznik, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, marking the 1,700 years anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Pope joins patriarchs from East and West at historic Christian site in Turkey to pray for unity

A Christian Orthodox clergy stands in one of the corridors of the Christian Orthodox Halki Theological school, at the Holy Trinity monastery, in Heybeliada island, Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Optimism ahead of pope’s visit to Turkey for reopening of Istanbul’s Greek Orthodox seminary

Visitors look at archaeological excavations of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian Saint Neophytos Basilica, in Iznik, also known by its ancient name Nicaea, northwestern Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, ahead of the visit of Pope Leo XIV to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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Thousands of Orthodox Jews rally in New York to protest change in Israel’s military draft rules

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, arrives for a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Orthodox patriarch defends recognition of an independent Ukrainian church

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, arrives for a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Eastern Orthodox leader is on a US visit to meet with Trump and receive award for environmental work

Sister Vassa Larin, a prominent American Orthodox nun, public speaker and YouTube presenter, poses for a portrait for the Associated Press in her room before recording one of her videos in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, Sept 3. 2025. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

A US Orthodox influencer spoke against Russia’s war. Then she was ousted as a nun

The Monastery of the Caves, also known as Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine moves to ban an Orthodox church it says is linked with pro-war Moscow church

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and Alexei (John Trader), Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska talk after laying flowers to the graves of Soviet soldiers who died during World War II at Fort Richardson National Cemetery, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Orthodox archbishop apologizes to anyone pained by his meeting with Putin

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and Alexei (John Trader), Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska talk after laying flowers to the graves of Soviet soldiers who died during World War II at Fort Richardson National Cemetery, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US archbishop’s meeting with Putin denounced as ‘betrayal of Christian witness’

Archbishop Alexei of the Diocese of Sitka and Alaska, center, leads a prayer service for peace in the Russia-Ukraine War, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, at the Saint Innocent Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska, ahead of a U.S.-Russia summit. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Orthodox Christians in Alaska pray for peace ahead of Trump-Putin summit

Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of St. Olga, the first female Orthodox saint in North America. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy’s new saint?

This image provided by the Diocese of Sitka and Alaska in June 2025 shows a detail of the official icon of St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska. (Diocese of Sitka and Alaska via AP)

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew speaks during his meeting with Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in Athens, Thursday May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Orthodox Church leader says faith is humanity’s safeguard against the ‘impending robotocracy’

Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attend an ecumenical meeting and prayer for peace in Our Lady of Arabia Cathedral, Sakhir, Bahrain, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Four centuries later, Easter’s date remains divisive. Some church leaders want that to change

Newly appointed Orthodox Archbishop Joan of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, looks on during an inauguration ceremony at the Cathedral of Resurrection of Christ, in Tirana, Albania, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Albania’s Orthodox Church enthrones its new Archbishop Joan

Albania’s Orthodox church elects new leader, Archbishop Joan

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew leads the official door-opening ceremony of lower Manhattan's St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Nov. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Ecumenical Orthodox patriarch backs Ukraine’s sovereignty in Mass marking 3 years of war

Greek Orthodox priests stand next to the casket of the late Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and All Albania as people pay their respects during a religious ceremony, a day before his funeral, inside the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, in Tirana, Albania, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Thousands of Albanians pay last respects to Orthodox Christian Archbishop Anastasios

Archbishop Anastasios Yanoulatos, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, leads the Easter celebrations at the Christ Resurrection Cathedral in the capital Tirana, on May 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina, File)

Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the Orthodox Church in Albania, dies at 95

Bulgarians sing and dance while holding Bulgarian flag in the Lesnovska River during Epiphany Day celebrations in the town of Elin Pelin, Bulgaria, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Bulgarians celebrate the feast of Epiphany with a ritual plunge into icy rivers

Rev. Constantine Dousikos celebrates the Blessing of the Five Loaves ceremony at the Orthodox church of Agios Stylianos in Fourna village, central Greece, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

A Greek village leans into faith in its fight against demographic collapse

Pope Francis asperges the coffing with the body of late Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot during his funeral in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope hopes to visit Turkey in 2025 to mark 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea

Daniel Gammerman poses for a photo on his balcony where he sometimes prays as he prepares to worship at home for the Jewish High Holy Days, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Are LGBTQ Jews welcome in Orthodox communities? This is how they are building spaces of their own

Newly elected Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil blesses the people during his enthronement ceremony at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Bulgaria's Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Daniil, a 52-year-old metropolitan considered to be pro-Russian, as its new leader in a disputed vote that reflects the divisions in the church and in the society. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church elects a new patriarch with pro-Russian views

Christian Orthodox worshippers leave the chapel basement after attending a service at the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in, Lypivka, near Lviv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 28, 2024. This Orthodox Easter season, an extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka. Two years ago it also provided physical refuge from horrors outside. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Damaged in war, a vibrant church in Ukraine rises as a symbol of the country’s faith and culture

From left, Lyudmila Navalnaya and Anatoly Navalny, parents of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and Navalny's mother-in-law Alla Abrosimova visit the grave of the late Russian opposition leader son on the fortieth day after his death as per Orthodox tradition at the Borisovskoye Cemetery, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Vitaly Smolnikov)

A Russian Orthodox priest who took part in services for Navalny is suspended by the patriarch

Orthodox clergy, official, honour guards and people walk along with the coffin of the Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte during his funeral with honours procession, in Sofia, Saturday, March 16, 2024. Bulgarians have lined the streets of Sofia to bid farewell to the late Orthodox Patriarch Neophyte. The spiritual leader of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Christians died on Wednesday at the age of 78 after a long illness. Neophyte, who became patriarch in 2013, was the first elected head of the Bulgarian church after the fall of communism in 1989. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Bulgarians line the streets of the capital to bid farewell to Orthodox Patriarch Neophyte

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