Britain’s King Charles III, undergoing cancer treatment, to attend Easter service
London, UK Reuters Britain’s King Charles III will attend the Easter Sunday service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor, in what will be his first public appearance at a traditional royal event since his cancer diagnosis was revealed in February. Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday that Charles, 75, and his wife Queen Camilla will attend […]
Head of Ukraine’s Orthodox church asks faithful to forgo night Easter services
Reuters The head of Ukraine’s Orthodox church asked clergy and the faithful on Wednesday to forgo night Easter services in areas of the country affected by fighting, fearing Russian bombardments will continue during the Orthodox Easter period. Metropolitan Epifaniy, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, takes part in a memorial service for Ukrainian servicemen […]
Catholics mark Good Friday outside Notre-Dame three years after fire
Reuters Hundreds of Catholic worshippers gathered for prayer and song outside Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Good Friday, three years to the day after its roof was destroyed in a massive blaze. Notre-Dame has been closed for restoration since the fire in 2019 gutted its roof and sent its spire crashing down, to the horror […]
Greek Church to allow worshippers at Easter Week services
Athens, GreeceAP The powerful Church of Greece said Tuesday it would allow the faithful to take part in Orthodox Easter services next week but limit attendance and hold the services earlier in the day to conform with a government-imposed curfew. The decision comes despite Greece reporting a high number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, and […]
Four in 10 US Christians plan to attend in-person Easter services – poll
RNS Americans are becoming more confident they can attend in-person religious services but church attendance at Easter services will still be far lower than usual this year, a new Pew Research poll finds. The poll, conducted in early March among 12,055 Americans, finds the percentage of regular attenders who say they actually have attended religious […]
Vatican returns to the past with Easter COVID-19 restrictions
Vatican CityRNS Over the past 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has weathered wars, natural disasters and plagues. As Italy faces one of its gravest challenges in recent years in the coronavirus pandemic, the church’s rich history contains lessons about how to live out the Catholic faith in times of crisis. Among those lessons: how to […]
Papal Good Friday service draws attention to world’s poor
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis listened as a preacher denounced the widespread inequality in the world at a Good Friday service on the day Christians recall Jesus’ death by crucifixion. During the “Passion of the Lord” service in St Peter’s Basilica, songs in Latin recounted the last hours in Jesus’ life, from his arrest to his […]