Source: Los Angeles Times
On April 1, 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported that a panel representing the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and U.S. Eastern Orthodox churches have endorsed a call for all Christians to celebrate Easter on the same date. Currently, both Western and Eastern Christianity observe Easter on the Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, but Eastern and Western churches use different calendars, so they mark the equinox on different days. The panel said that consideration should be given to the Orthodox view that Easter should come after the Jewish holiday of Passover because the New Testament indicates that Jesus died the day before Passover ended and rose from the dead on the day after the holiday.