Easter is on Sunday, March 31, this year, but those celebrating the holiday religiously will start much earlier. The Friday before Easter is known to Catholics as Good Friday and honors the ...

Catholic Archbishop Jose Gomez during Good Friday liturgy at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles in 2020. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) Good Friday, a religious day of ...

It is Good Friday, the most solemn day of the year. Pity the preachers who, year in and year out, must participate in the recitation of the passion account, which invites silence more than anything, ...

Every Christian knows the tale: Jesus Christ died and rose again for the forgiveness of mankind’s sins, promising those who believe in him eternal life. Christians typically celebrate Jesus’s ...

Easter is just days away, marking an end to the Lenten season — often observed by the religious as giving up something for weeks and abstaining from meat on Fridays — as the final days of Holy Week, ...

A man, portraying Jesus, carries a cross down a neighborhood street during a 2019 live re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross outside All Saints Catholic Church in Houston on Good Friday. (CNS ...

Good Friday is here, but what does the holy holiday mean and is it a federally celebrated holiday? The Christian holiday arrives three days before Easter every year and kicks off one of the most ...

Christians around the world observe Good Friday two days before Easter, but what is it, and why do they commemorate the holy day? The holiday is part of Holy Week, which leads up to Easter Sunday.

VATICAN CITY, April 18 (Reuters) - (This April 18 story has been refiled to correct captions on the pictures) U.S. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic who has clashed with Pope Francis over the Trump ...

CHIMAYÓ, N.M. -- A unique Holy Week tradition drew thousands of Catholic pilgrims to a small adobe church in the hills of northern New Mexico, in a journey on foot through desert badlands to reach a ...

Many still skip meat on Good Friday—but the food traditions go far beyond that. Here’s how five countries turn this quiet holiday into something meaningful at the table. Good Friday is widely ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic who has clashed with Pope Francis over the Trump administration's immigration policies, took part in a religious service at the ...