Church.org is a non-denominational Christian site that provides Christian resources. We help anybody looking to learn more about Christ, study the Bible, and connect with others through the Gospel of Christ. If you’d like, you can submit your email or phone number and receive a daily Bible verse!

1. The Best Easter Traditions Around the World
What is Easter Holiday?
Easter is celebrated by millions of people around the world, but many others may not be
as familiar with the story. Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the
third day after His crucifixion.
Christian Easter celebrations
Since so many different cultures and people celebrate Easter, there are thousands of
traditions, ranging from church-wide services and practices like Lent in the Catholic
church, to small family traditions like special desserts. There are many Easter traditions,
both religious and social.

2. The Best Easter Traditions Around the World
How to Find a Church Service for Easter
Almost every Christian church will be holding an Easter service at some point, probably
in the morning. If you don’t want to walk into a random service, you can look online
and find websites for churches you prefer to go to, or you can check social media pages
of churches you’d like to visit. Most will be making their Easter service as accessible as
possible to others. If you are unable to attend a service in person due to distance,
sickness, or another reason, there are several meetings that are recorded, you can either
watch live or a recorded version of a past service online.
Religious traditions
Lent
Lent is a practice in the Catholic Church that begins on Ash Wednesday, 40 days before
Easter weekend, and ends at sundown the night of Holy Thursday, right before Good
Friday. As a period of preparation for Easter and in memory of Jesus fasting for 40 days
and 40 nights, it is a time of fasting, giving alms, studying the Bible, and prayer.
Baptized Catholics participating in Lent abstain from eating meat on Fridays, and also
think and pray about other luxuries to give up during the 40-day period.

3. The Best Easter Traditions Around the World
Fasika
Ethiopia has a similar practice called Fasika (the Amharic word for Easter). It is the 55-
day period before Easter and Christians who practice it give up meat and animal
products for the whole 55 days in preparation for Fasika. After the Sunday service on
Fasika, a rich celebration and dinner follows.
Reenactments
Many people will participate in or go see reenactments of the crucifixion and
resurrection or other events from the Bible and Christ’s life to remember Him.
Easter processions
Lots of cities will have huge parades and processions to celebrate Easter. The most
notable are the procession the Pope leads in Vatican City and the walk in Jerusalem,
where people can follow the same path Jesus took.

4. The Best Easter Traditions Around the World
Social and Family Easter Traditions
Easter eggs
The tradition of Easter eggs is a huge one. Many families will paint hard-boiled eggs with dye or
paint and eat the colored eggs later. Colorful plastic eggshells are filled with candy or toys and
hidden outside or around the house for the kids to look for. Lots of people in Mexico and the
United States have adopted Mexican cascarones, a Carnival tradition, for Easter. Cascarones can
be store-bought but lots of people prefer to make their own at home. To make them, you cut a
small hole at the tip of the egg to drain out the whites and yolk. Once the shell is empty, you
gently paint it with food dye and fill it with confetti, glitter, or anything else small. You can then
glue a small piece of tissue paper over the hole to seal the egg. Now you can crack your
cascarones on friends and family!
Chocolate animals
Another common Easter treat is chocolate bunnies. In the United States, chocolate bunnies and
chicks are most common for Easter, but some countries go for other animals. Australia has
replaced the Easter Bunny with the Easter Bilby, a similar-looking but less invasive species.
Rabbits are invasive to Australia and have become a problem, so they have rebranded the Easter
Bunny and Chocolate bunnies with the endangered rabbit-eared bandicoots.

5. The Best Easter Traditions Around the World
Food
There are tons of foods associated with Easter, and many more family traditions. The
most obvious Easter food is eggs. Representing Spring and new life, eggs are pretty
universal when it comes to Easter. Another popular food eaten in America on Easter is
ham. This is mostly just due to ham curing over the Winter and being ready to eat by
Easter in the Spring, but the tradition has stuck.
A small town in Southern France, Haux, has taken up the tradition of cooking a massive
omelet every Easter. 15,000 eggs are cracked and cooked into an omelet that serves
over a thousand people. New Zealand and Australia typically bake hot cross buns for
Easter. The heavy comfort food matches as Easter lines up with their Fall instead of
Spring. Another popular treat to make on Easter is resurrection rolls. Homemade or
storebought dough is wrapped around a marshmallow coated in butter and cinnamon
sugar and then baked. When bitten into, the marshmallow is gone and there is a hole left
in the pastry. Making these is a popular object lesson to teach about the resurrection and
symbolize the empty tomb.

6. The Best Easter Traditions Around the World
Bonfires
Many European Countries will light celebratory Easter Fires to chase the darkness of
Winter away and welcome in the new Spring. This is typically the first big gathering
after Winter and is a social event as well as symbolic.
Fireworks
To go along with fires, many cultures set off fireworks to celebrate Easter and the
coming Spring. Florence, Italy has the Scoppio del Carro (Explosion of the Cart), a
350-year-old tradition of loading a cart with fireworks, leading it through the streets to
the Duomo, where the Archbishop of Florence lights it during Easter mass. Another
tradition is the Mexican Judas burning, where a paper mache doll representing Judas
Iscariot is stuffed with fireworks and blown up.
Kites
The island of Bermuda has a popular tradition of kite flying on Easter weekend, the
Good Friday KiteFest. The kites are usually strong colors and geometric shapes, and
often use a cross in part of the structure.

7. The Best Easter Traditions Around the World
Using Storebought Chocolate
You can buy melting chocolate from most grocery stores. The best way to melt
chocolate smoothly is by using a double boiler. A double boiler is a heat-proof bowl
(usually glass or metal) placed over a pot of simmering water. The hot water heats up
the glass or metal bowl which evenly melts the chocolate without burning it. You can
melt the chocolate in the microwave, just be sure to use a microwave-safe bowl and use
short blasts and stir in between so you don’t burn the chocolate. You can also make
homemade chocolate using cocoa beans, cocoa butter, sugar, and milk or cream. Once
made, you can melt it the same way.
Church.org daily Bible verse
Church.org is a non-denominational Christian site that provides Christian resources. We
help anybody looking to learn more about Christ, study the Bible, and connect with
others through the Gospel of Christ. If you’d like, you can submit your email or phone
number and receive a daily Bible verse!
You can also navigate the site and find Bible verses for questions you may have or
things you may be struggling with. You can find a Bible verse about fear, love, the
creation, the Christmas story, the Easter story, parables, and more.

8. The Best Easter Traditions Around the World
Church.org is the number one resource in connecting with your local faith based
community. Submit your prayer requests at Church.org and join a community of
believers who will stand with you in faith and intercede on your behalf.