FOREST CITY - On Good Friday, it didn't matter if you were Lutheran, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist or any other denomination. What mattered, local pastors said, was the commonality Christians share ...

BLOOMINGTON — Johnny Freymann, 9, was carrying a message on Friday afternoon. The symbol of the message was a 200-pound wooden cross made from two railroad ties. Johnny was among dozens of people who ...

Two days before Easter, many Christians around the world will commemorate Good Friday. It's part of Holy Week, which leads up to Easter Sunday. But what is it? "Good Friday has been, for centuries now ...

Every year, people throughout the world celebrate Easter, but Easter is incomplete without Good Friday — a day considered sacred by millions of Americans. On Good Friday, Christians remember the ...

Good Friday is perhaps the most holy yet least understood day in Christianity. It is the day of Jesus Christ's crucifixion and death, a day of agony, betrayal, and brutal slaughter. And paradoxically, ...

Two thousand years ago, humanity failed. A representative of the most powerful nation in the world folded to popular pressure and executed a religious teacher without blame. That man’s own people had ...

With Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent behind us, Easter Sunday is right around the corner – preceded by another Christian holy day: Good Friday. Following the Lent season, when some indulge in ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Christians in New York and around the world marked Good Friday and prepared for a much different kind of Easter Sunday amid the coronavirus pandemic. At Our Lady of Pompeii in Dobbs ...

READING, Pa. — On this Good Friday, the message from Holy Rosary Church in Reading wasn’t just about remembering. It was a call to return. Father Samuel Yeboah, assistant priest at Sacred Heart Parish ...

HAVANA (AP) — Good Friday was an official holiday in Cuba for the first time in a half century, but few Roman Catholics on the island seemed to be using the day off to attend Mass. Cuba's Communist ...