Yes. Easter is the Christian feast of the resurrection of Jesus, kept on a Sunday in spring, and the churches rank it above every other day of the year. Christians were celebrating it by the second century. In most languages its name comes from Pascha, the Greek and Latin form of the Hebrew Pesach, Passover. What does Easter mean for Christians? Easter celebrates the central claim of Christian faith: that Jesus, crucified on a Friday at Passover, rose from the…

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