The Vatican said Sunday that its traditional Easter week celebrations would be held this year without worshippers due to the coronavirus. ...
The Sri Lankan government has lifted a ban on social media platforms intended to stop the spread of rumors after the Easter Sunday bombings, a source ...
The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their ...
Huge crowds of pilgrims on Saturday marked the “Holy Fire” ceremony at Christianity’s holiest site in Jerusalem’s Old City on ...
Sri Lankan officials revised the death toll from Easter Sunday bombings down by about 100 on Thursday, blaming the difficulty in identifying body ...
Sri Lanka's president on Tuesday vowed a major shake-up of the military's top brass in the wake of the deadly Easter suicide bombings, after the ...
Sri Lankan police are holding a Syrian national in custody for questioning over the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels, three government and ...
The archbishop of Paris and Catholics from around France and the world honored the firefighters who saved Notre-Dame Cathedral, praying Sunday at a ...
The death toll from attacks on churches and luxury hotels across Sri Lanka rose significantly to 290, and about 500 people were also wounded, police ...
Sri Lanka’s government imposed a nationwide curfew Sunday that police said would go into effect immediately and would last “until further ...
At an Easter vigil in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis on Saturday encouraged people to resist cynicism or pursuing the “glitter of ...
The toll in a string of blasts on Sunday at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka has risen to at least 207, including 35 foreigners, a police official ...
Several thousand people flocked to a private arena in northwest Bosnia on Saturday to cheer on their favorite horses during a traditional pre-Easter ...
To be worthy of the title of master, a blacksmith in Kresevo in central Bosnia had to perform a delicate task -- shoe an egg without breaking it. ...
The ban on pilgrimage to Jerusalem is associated to the late Pope Shenouda III who objected to the 1979 Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel and ...
The White House is opening the gates for its biggest social event of the year, the annual Easter Egg Roll. President Donald Trump and his wife, ...
Christians in Dubai marked Easter by attending the first mass of the holiday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Father Tanios Geagea had held the ...
On Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also ...
The Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II on Friday canceled most Easter celebrations, limiting them to a simple Mass, following the recent twin attacks ...
Pope Francis deplored the suffering of migrants, victims of racism and persecuted Christians as some 20,000 worshippers gathered at Rome’s ...
Egypt’s Coptic Church announced on Wednesday that it would cut back Easter celebrations to a simple mass after twin bombings killed 45 ...
Egyptian churches, in the southern city of Minya, say they will not hold Easter celebrations next Saturday in mourning for 45 Coptic Christians killed ...
While Coptic fasting time is unequalled in any other Christian community, with a total of 210 days in 365,
Parks, cinemas, restaurants and beaches were packed on the day as Egyptians marked Sham el-Nessim, or the festival known as “smelling the breeze.”
In Greece, the faithful attended Easter Mass holding candles lit with 'Holy Fire' from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
It was Pakistan's deadliest attack since the December 2014 massacre of 134 school children at a military-run academy
More than 5,000 people were searched and interrogated in all districts of the province
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hosted 35,000 guests on the South Lawn for the 138th annual event
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to avenge the attack in the provincial capital
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