JERUSALEM (AP) — Jerusalem's major holy sites are shuttered and families are dejected and exhausted ahead of Passover and Easter as the Iran war enters its fifth week. The mood stands in stark contrast to a usual spring, when longer days herald a period of family gatherings and an influx ...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli police prevented Catholic leaders from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate a private Mass on the Christian holiday of Palm Sunday for the first time in centuries, setting off a wave of criticism from the United States and ...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that God doesn't listen to the prayers of those who make war or cite God to justify their violence, as he prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East during a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. With the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran entering ...
PARKERSBURG — The annual Good Friday Community Stations of the Cross will be held at noon April 3 starting at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 532 Market St. The interdenominational walk will go to several downtown churches to memorialize Jesus Christ’s journey through Jerusalem on the ...
PARKERSBURG — Holy Week observances will begin Sunday at First Lutheran Church on 19th Street. Sunday will be Palm Sunday, marking the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Palm Sunday will be celebrated with worship at 8:30 am; Sunday school at 9:40 and the traditional worship service ...
MEALS * Good Friday Fish Fry A Good Friday Fish Fry will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 3, at Rockland Fellowship Church, 2300 Washington Blvd., Belpre. The price is $15 for a dinner of two pieces of deep-fried cod, baked beans, mac ‘n cheese, hush puppies, coleslaw, dessert ...