In the biblical Palm Sunday story, a cheering crowd greeted Jesus along the road. Some spread their garments on the ground; others threw down leafy branches they had cut from the fields.

On Palm Sunday, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa ... After Pizzaballa blessed palms from Jericho and olive branches from the Franciscan Convent of the Holy Savior in Jerusalem, clergy and lay ...

Pizzaballa blessed the palms from Jericho and the olive branches brought from the Franciscan convent of St. Savior that he then distributed to revelers celebrating Palm Sunday. Argentina's ...

In cities such as Bethlehem, Jericho, Ramallah, Nablus, and Jenin, churches following the Eastern, Western, and Armenian calendars restricted Palm Sunday celebrations to masses and prayers only.