Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem, West Bank
Crucifixion of Jesus marked with procession in Beit Jala, prayers on route of planned security barrier
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Pilgrims are visiting from Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine and other eastern European countries
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Hundreds of pilgrims retrace Jesus’s final steps along Old City’s Via Dolorosa
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Good Friday ceremonies take place worldwide; in the Philippines several devotees are actually nailed to crosses
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Catholic meditators recall plight of Middle East’s Christian communities and call for end to fundamentalism
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View ArticleChristians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem
Thousands carry crosses down Via Dolorosa remembering Jesus’s crucifixion; fearing riots, police restrict Temple Mount access
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People of Masatepe celebrate Good Friday by wearing elaborate masks and symbolically beating betrayer of Jesus
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Purim and Good Friday coincide this year, recalling a dark past and sparking hope for love’s ultimate triumph
View ArticleThousands trace Jesus’s footsteps on Good Friday in Jerusalem
Procession of Catholics and Protestants passes along the Via Dolorosa in the Old City; Orthodox Christians mark Easter Sunday on May 1
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Francis also condemns ‘indifference and inhospitality’ to refugees risking lives in unseaworthy smugglers’ boats
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Hundreds of Israeli security forces deployed along Old City’s narrow streets to regulate flow of worshipers
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Egyptian Copts mark solemn Good Friday after church bombings
Rites are especially mournful for the Christian minority following last Sunday's suicide attacks that killed 45
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Extreme religious acts mark Good Friday in the Philippines
Tourists watch crucifixions, worshipers whipping themselves to a bloody state as vendors hawk soft drinks, snacks, hats and umbrellas
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Christians celebrate Good Friday in Jerusalem
Pilgrims from around the world mark crucifixion by following the Old City path traditionally walked by Jesus
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Pilgrims mark Good Friday in Jerusalem as Passover and Easter converge
Confluence of Christian and Jewish festivals leads to flocks of tourists amid festive atmosphere in the holy city
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Polish crowd beats, burns Judas effigy with hat, sidelocks of ultra-Orthodox Jew
In Good Friday ceremony in small town of Pruchnik, residents stage public trial for Jesus' betrayer, depicted with long nose and Haredi attire
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Poland’s Catholic Church condemns Jewish effigy ritual
After Good Friday event in southeast Poland, Bishop says church 'will never tolerate manifestations of contempt towards members of any nation, including the Jewish people'
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Poland opens hate crime probe into beating, burning of Jewish effigy
Video of anti-Semitic Easter revival in which kids take sticks to Judas doll sparks outrage among both Poles and Jews; minister calls ritual 'idiotic, pseudo-religious chutzpah'
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A week after Western brethren, Orthodox Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem
Thousands of worshipers retrace the steps Jesus is said to have taken on the way to his death, along the Old City's 'Via Dolorosa'
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