The Easter season begins for many Christians with Lent leading up to Holy Week and the celebration of new life on Resurrection Sunday.

WITH the blessing of the fronds — in the Philippines, often artistically woven coconut leaves — the Holy Week starts. Whether in the liturgy of the Church or in pious devotion, there will be homilies, ...

Stereotypes about Christians in North India, fueled by their portrayal in Hindi cinema, persist despite the community's small ...

Christians are celebrating Holy Week with processions and reenactments in places like Jerusalem, Brazil, Nigeria, India, ...

Throughout Holy Week, he said, his homilies were focused on the theme of the Holy Year 2025: hope. The sorrow of Good Friday ...

Unable to attend the Good Friday ceremony in person for the third consecutive year, the pope offered deep meditations for the ...

This tradition, which dates back more than 150 years, involves pilgrims praying the rosary as they climb the church's steps.

Cincinnati's newly installed Archbishop Robert Casey blessed the steps at midnight. Thousands of people are praying the steps at Holy Cross Immaculata Church in Mt. Adams (WKRC) It was his first time ...

Thousands of people recited prayers while carrying large wooden crosses and walking through the streets of the Old City of ...