As Iranians celebrate the Persian New Year, explore the fascinating calendars still used around the world—shaped by sun, moon ...

Easter is observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. If it seems as if Easter is ...

The religious observances of Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter will take place in April this year. Lent started on Ash Wednesday, March 5, and continues until April 17. With each of these occasions ...

Also known as the Hijri calendar, the Islamic calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, unlike the more widely used Gregorian calendar, which is based on the sun. The lunar calendar is used ...

In the Gregorian calendar, it is always observed on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25. "Over a 500-year period (from 1600 to 2099 AD), Easter will most often be celebrated on either March ...

WHAT day of the week is March 22 in the year 1749? This is the challenge for the competitors in the country's first ever ...

Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh): A one-day international seminar on ‘Tradition of Samvat in India: Distinctiveness and Evidence’ was ...

The first day of Ramadan 2025 marks a rare alignment between the Hijri or Islamic lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar. Although used with alternative spellings such a Ramzan, Ramzaan or ...

Because some of the older religious traditions are determined by non-Gregorian calendars, many of them lunar-based, their dates don’t always line up with an equinox-oriented view of spring.

Due to the alignment of the lunar cycles that determine the date of Christianity’s primary feast in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, April 20 is this year an almost universal celebration ...