Today is Easter Sunday, which many HN users may not be aware.
It's the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after 3 days from when Pontius Pilate (of the featured article) sentenced Jesus to death.
It's the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after 3 days from when Pontius Pilate (of the featured article) sentenced Jesus to death.
Also note that the Eastern Orthodox church is not the church of Russia, there are quite a few Orthodox churches who recognize each other as having the same creed, but who don't otherwise share leadership (with 14 Patriarchs - Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Georgia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia, Greece, Poland, Romania, Albania, and the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and a few others).