6 articles tagged "easter"
Churches across Lebanon turned Easter celebrations into solidarity prayers for Christian and Muslim villages caught between Israeli forces and Hezbollah.
A 100-foot tree toppled during high winds in northern Germany, killing three people including a 10-month-old girl and her 21-year-old mother.
The first American pontiff delivered an unusually brief and direct appeal for peace, specifically criticizing the Iran war.
The Chicago-born pontiff urged world leaders to choose dialogue over violence in his inaugural Easter blessing before 50,000 faithful in St. Peter's Square.
The US-born pontiff celebrates Easter Sunday as conflicts rage across the region, with Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre closed for the first time.
The new pontiff personally bore the wooden cross through all 14 stations at the Colosseum, the first pope to do so in decades.