Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Jayanti, also known as Gaura Purnima, celebrates the birth of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a key figure in ...

Holi rings in the onset of spring and the end of bleak, dreary winter. The festival usually falls in the month of March as per the Gregorian calendar. It is celebrated in the month of Phagun, on the ...

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Purim begins on the evening of March 13, 2025, and concludes at sundown on March 14, 2025.

Why isn’t the date for Easter fixed in the same way as other Christian holidays? Christmas, for example, is always December ...

A total lunar eclipse will light up the night sky this week, turning the moon a reddish hue. Here's how and when to view it.

Purim is a joyful Jewish holiday that celebrates the survival of the Jewish people in ancient Persia, as told in the biblical ...

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This unique alignment between the Hijri (Islamic lunar) calendar and the Gregorian calendar happens only once every 33 years. Eng. Majed Abu Zahra, President of the Jeddah Astronomical Society ...

The purpose is to keep it aligned with the Earth's orbit around the sun. The Gregorian calendar has 365 days in a year, however the Earth's orbit around the sun takes 365.2425 days which is ...

The result: a year consisting of 354 or 355 days. Now compare that with the Gregorian calendar, started in 1582 and in use around much of the world. And it is based on a solar cycle consisting of ...

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 ...