Conversations: Photographer Stephen Wilkes’ Easter Sunday at St Peter’s
JIM MCDERMOTT reports, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that an exhibition of the photographer’s Day and Night view of the Vatican on Easter, one in a series of Wilkes’ epic shots of religion festivals, vaults the day into an almost cosmological framework…
In pictures – Easter Sunday around the world
Updated: 5:45pm (AEDT) Across the globe, people celebrated Easter Sunday – commemorating the day when, according to Christian tradition, Jesus was resurrected in Jerusalem two millennia ago. Clerics read prayers before lighting the holy fire during the Easter religious service at the St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday, 30th March, 2024. […]
Pope at Easter: Pray for Ukrainian, Russian people, refugees
Vatican CityAP In an Easter message highlighting hope, Pope Francis on Sunday invoked prayers for both the Ukrainian and Russian people, praised nations which welcome refugees and called on Israelis and Palestinians wracked by the latest surge in deadly violence to forge a “climate of trust.” Francis, along with dozens of prelates and tens of thousands of […]
Easter Sunday 2023
Essay: An unfathomable love
CHRIS GILBERT reflects on the meaning of Easter…
Sri Lankan court summons ex-President over 2019 bombings
Colombo, Sri Lanka AP A Sri Lankan court issued a summons on Friday ordering an ex-president to appear in a case alleging he failed to prevent suicide bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270 people. The court ordered ex-President Maithripala Sirisena to appear on 14th October in a complaint filed by a Catholic priest […]
Greeks celebrate Easter without restrictions
Athens, Greece AP For the first time in three years, Greeks were able to celebrate Orthodox Easter without the restrictions made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic. Beyond the obvious religious messages, in Greece, Easter signifies a return to the countryside, often to people’s ancestral homes, and a mass exodus from big cities. Police and port […]
Far from home, Ukrainian refugees pray at Easter for peace
Budapest, Hungary AP Far from home and unsure when or even if they will ever get back, Ukrainians displaced by war gathered at churches across Eastern Europe on Sunday to celebrate the Orthodox Easter holiday in safety and to pray for an end to the fighting with Russia. Hundreds of believers crowded into the Church of […]
Christian faithful mark Easter in Jerusalem
AP Christian worshippers gathered in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepluchre, the traditional site of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection, on Sunday to observe the Easter holiday. Orthodox Christian clergy marks Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a place where Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected, in Jerusalem, on […]
Pope makes Easter plea for Ukraine peace, cites nuclear risk
Vatican CityAP On what is supposed to be Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the “senseless” war in Ukraine and in other armed conflicts raging in the world, and voiced worry about the risk of nuclear warfare. “May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so sorely […]