Christian faithful of the Legio Maria African Mission attend the traditional Palm Sunday procession in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday, March 24, 2024. Streams of Christian pilgrims gathered Sunday to ...

March 24 (UPI) --Christians from around the world flocked to East Jerusalem on Sunday to march in a traditional Palm Sunday procession amid Israel's war in Gaza. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of ...

As they walked through the streets of Qaraqosh, participants sang Palm Sunday hymns in both Arabic and Syriac and waved olive branches. Thousands celebrate the beginning of Holy Week on April 13, 2025 ...

On Palm Sunday, hundreds of priests, bishops, cardinals, and laypeople solemnly carried large palm branches in procession through St. Peter’s Square to begin the first liturgy of Holy Week. “Dear ...

A crowd followed a donkey Sunday morning along East Capitol Avenue. The First Christian Church at 327 E. Capitol Ave. invited Samson, a roughly 16-year-old donkey from Sleepy Acre Farm in Taos, to ...

The Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest invited the community to begin their journey through Holy Week on Sunday morning, with a celebration of the Sunday of the Passion, or Palm Sunday.

Pope Francis chose not to read the prepared homily, but reminded the faithful: ‘Today, we gather together to herald with the whole Church the beginning of the celebration of Our Lord’s Paschal mystery ...

Samson is a "hot commodity around this time" of year, according to his owner Amelia Holtmeyer. "Not many people really own miniature donkeys," Amelia said. "They have maybe full-sized ones, but minis ...

On Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, Christians participated in the traditional procession marking the beginning of Holy Week with palm and olive branches — one of the most significant events for the ...

Palm Sunday commemorates the Christian belief in the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when he was greeted by cheering crowds waving palm branches that they set out on the ground along his path ...