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These images capture Easter Sunday around the world
Across the globe, people celebrated Easter Sunday — commemorating the day when, according to Christian tradition, Jesus was resurrected in Jerusalem two millennia ago.
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Israelis stage largest protest since war began to increase pressure on Netanyahu
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In his Easter address, the pope called for a cease-fire in Gaza and a Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap
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The Trump camp and the White House clash over Biden’s recognition of ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’
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Pope presides over Easter Vigil, delivers 10-minute homily after skipping Good Friday at last minute
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Hours to make and seconds to destroy, Holy Week flower carpets are a labor of love in Guatemala
Each Holy Week, thousands of residents of the colonial, volcano-fringed city of Antigua participate in some of Guatemala’s oldest and most popular Easter traditions.
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An LGBTQ-inclusive church welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps
After the 1959 revolution, Cuba repressed gay people and many were sent to labor camps. But the communist-run island has made strides in recent years when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights.
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Ships with a second round of aid for Gaza have departed Cyprus as concerns about hunger soar
A three-ship convoy has left a port in Cyprus to deliver 400 tons of food and other supplies to Gaza as concerns about hunger there soar.
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Some state lawmakers want school chaplains as part of a ‘rescue mission’ for public education
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed legislation to allow spiritual chaplains in public schools.
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Young and old participate in Holy Week religious processions on Italy’s Procida island
PROCIDA, Italy (AP) — Italy is known for the religious processions that take over towns big and small throughout the year when Catholic feast days are celebrated.
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Israel’s high court says the government must stop funding seminaries. Could that topple Netanyahu?
A dramatic decision by Israel’s Supreme Court on drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the Israeli military could spell political trouble for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Good Friday in Latin America
Across Latin America, Roman Catholic faithful commemorated Good Friday with processions and ceremonies re-enacting the crucifixion of Jesus.
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Pope skips Good Friday event to preserve health ahead of Easter, Vatican says
The Vatican says Pope Francis has skipped the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health, adding to concerns about his frail condition during a particularly busy liturgical period.
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Minnesota Legislature will return from Easter break with plenty of bills still in the pipeline
The Minnesota Legislature will return from its Easter break with plenty of bills in the pipeline. Bills awaiting legislative attention on Tuesday include several high-profile pieces of legislation, ranging from cannabis and sports betting, to rights for trans people, to maintaining the state’s roads
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In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday rituals
Hundreds of Christians have joined the Good Friday procession in Jerusalem’s Old City, commemorating one of the faith’s most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
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Easter is March 31 this year. Here’s why many Christians will wake up before sunrise to celebrate
On Easter morning, many Christians wake before dawn. They will celebrate their belief in the resurrection of Jesus, the son of God, as the sun rises.
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Girl, 8, only survivor of bus crash that killed 45 Easter pilgrims on South Africa’s deadly roads
An 8-year-old girl was the lone survivor after a bus full of Easter pilgrims from Botswana making their way to a popular church festival in rural South Africa crashed off a bridge on a mountain pass and plunged into a ravine before bursting into flames.
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Hijab-wearing players in women’s NCAA Tournament hope to inspire others
N.C. State’s Jannah Eissa and UC Irvine’s Diaba Konate are bringing visibility and inspiration to Muslim women by wearing hjiabs while they play basketball.
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French soccer federation limits support for players’ Ramadan observance. Critics see discrimination
For Muslim soccer players in deeply secular France, observing Ramadan is a tall order. The country’s soccer federation wields the principle of religious neutrality enshrined in the French constitution, and doesn’t make things easy for players who want to refrain from drinking or eating from dawn to
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A Lebanese nun’s request to pray for Hezbollah fighters highlights schisms over the group’s weapons
A video showing a Lebanese nun asking young students to pray for the “men of the resistance,” a reference to Hezbollah fighters, has sparked controversy in Lebanon.
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A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace
A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition.
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Oregon city can’t limit church’s homeless meal services, federal judge rules
A federal judge has ruled that a southern Oregon city can’t limit a local church’s homeless meal services. KGW reports that U.S.
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Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is the only survivor
Authorities say a bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter weekend church gathering plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa, killing at least 45 people.
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Israeli court halts subsidies for ultra-Orthodox, deepening turmoil over mandatory military service
Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered an end to government subsidies for many ultra-Orthodox men who don’t serve in the army.
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Algeria’s government pushes staples to subsidized markets to stave off Ramadan shortages
Algeria’s government has flooded newly opened markets selling subsidized goods with pantry staples to stave off shortages during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, when demand typically increases in Muslim-majority countries and prices tend to rise.
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Norwegians facing a shortage as Easter nears are hoarding eggs from neighboring Sweden
A shortage of eggs in shops during Holy Week has led Norwegians to flock to supermarkets across the border in Sweden and hoard the traditional Easter food.
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King Charles stresses importance of kindness as he skips pre-Easter service amid cancer treatment
King Charles III stressed the importance of friendship and acts of caring in a recorded message delivered to a traditional pre-Easter church service, which the monarch skipped as he undergoes cancer treatment.
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Black pastors see popular Easter services as an opportunity to rebuild in-person worship attendance
As Black Protestants prepare for Easter this year, they hope to welcome more people to church than since the COVID-19 pandemic began four years ago.
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Pope, looking strong, washes feet of 12 women at Rome prison from his wheelchair
Pope Francis has washed and kissed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Rome prison. The 87-year-old Francis performed the Holy Thursday ritual from his wheelchair.
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The White House expects about 40,000 participants at its ‘egg-ucation'-themed annual Easter egg roll
The White House says it’s getting ready to welcome 40,000 people to its annual Easter Egg Roll. The egg-stravaganza was first held on the lawn in 1878.
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Martin Scorsese will dive into the journey to sainthood with an 8-part Fox Nation docuseries
Martin Scorsese will host, narrate and produce an eight-part docudrama for Fox Nation where he examines the evolution of eight men and women beatified as saints.
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Missouri boarding school closes as state agency examines how it responded to abuse claims
A rural Missouri boarding school at the center of abuse allegations has closed its doors. Meanwhile, a state agency is looking at itself to determine if it failed to adequately address past concerns about the school in calls to an abuse hotline.
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Quran-burning Iraqi man who faces an expulsion order from Sweden plans to seek asylum in Norway
An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has told a newspaper in the country that he would seek asylum in neighboring Norway in the wake of a deportation order by authorities in Stockholm.
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Pope appears in better health, praises Israeli and Arab fathers who both lost daughters in conflict
Pope Francis appears in better health, walking into the Vatican audience hall on his own with a cane for his weekly audience and delivering his prepared text with a clear voice.
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Ukraine celebrates Purim with costumes and dancing, as war drags on
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of people gathered in a synagogue in Kyiv this weekend to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, more than two years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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