FOR Catholics, Easter Sunday marks the culmination of Holy Week, which commemorates Jesus Christ's passion and death by ...

Holy Week is a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of events. But as Francis continues to recover ...

One of the world's largest ecumenical Christian church networks has been posting a climate activism agenda during Holy Week, ...

Easter is supposed to be a happy time, but all I can think of is the people who persecuted Jesus. At a time when Christians ...

The days of the Holy Week have not changed in recent tradition: Easter always falls on a Sunday, and the standard definition ...

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented. A group of migrants had been scheduled to be flown out of the ...

Parishioners washed each other’s feet during the Maundy Thursday mass at Holy Cross church in Santa Cruz this week, as part ...

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

Dozens of penitents whip their backs to atone for their sins during Good Friday rites in the the southern Philippine town of Kalayaan, as Christians across this ...

Easter to Christians cannot be understated. After all, the festival commemorates the day that Jesus rose from the dead, conquering death and offering eternal salvation to all for all time. But it’s in ...

Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...