April 28, 2000 BOB ABERNETHY: Now, Belief & Practice. This Sunday is Pascha or Easter for the world’s more than 250 million Eastern Orthodox Christians. They observe the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar followed by most westerners. For the Orthodox, Holy Week events began last Saturday. We spoke with Fredrica Matthewes-Green, a member of Holy Cross Orthodox Church near Baltimore, about the meaning of Pascha.
Ms. FREDRICA MATTHEWES-GREEN (Author, AT THE CORNER OF EAST AND NOW): Pascha is the most important feast in the entire church year. Read More...
We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time.
All servants imported and brought into the Country. Read More...
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