Mousa Kamar, front right, and his son, Youssef, left, carry the large wooden cross during the Good Friday procession on the Via Dolorosa in ... and on the life of Jesus. “When I am carrying ...

For centuries, Christian pilgrims have come to Jerusalem to retrace the last hours of Jesus' life, walking the traditional stations of the cross on the Via Dolorosa — or way of suffering.

For centuries, Christian pilgrims have retraced the last steps of Jesus Christ along Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa ... he was condemned to die, given a cross, forced to wear a crown of thorns ...

The procession is modeled on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, a re-enactment of Jesus carrying the cross to his crucifixion on Golgotha. Participants take turns carrying a wooden cross. Last year ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

Second station (Jesus carries his Cross). On Friday, Oct. 27, after two weeks, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land returned to pray the Way of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa in ...

In Jerusalem, they follow the Via Dolorosa, or Way of the Cross ... a choice to free Jesus or Barabbas, followed by Jesus carrying the cross and being hung on it to die. Ensley nonprofit to ...

ALQOSH, Iraq - An Iraqi man wearing a red-smeared white robe carried a wood cross through ... of worshippers down the Via Dolorosa, retracing what tradition holds were Jesus’ final steps ...