What is Palm Sunday, and why do we celebrate it? Palm Sunday is one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar, but it's often not understood. From the changing date to the actual traditions of ...

Photos: Christians at church services around the Lehigh Valley, including St. Anne Roman Catholic Church in Bethlehem, marked Palm Sunday, which begins Holy Week.

Christians all over the world are making preparations for Palm Sunday, a holiday commemorating Jesus Christ's final days on earth, his trial and crucifixion. The Christian celebration, observed on ...

The strike in Sumy, a northeastern Ukrainian city 18 miles from Russia’s border, took place on a major Christian holiday.

The days of the Holy Week have not changed in recent tradition: Easter always falls on a Sunday, and the standard definition ...

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 ...

Palm Sunday has the stuff that makes children's church programs so fun: palm branches, singing and shouting, a donkey and more. Yet these things also carry the weight of symbolic significance for ...

April 13 is Palm Sunday, a holy day kept by many Christians around the world. This day commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. For Jesus, it was the ...

She described how religious tourists to Jerusalem reenacted the events of Holy Week. On Palm Sunday afternoon, the crowds waved palm fronds as they made a procession from the Mount of Olives into ...

Holy Week is the most important or significant week in Catholicism. It starts with Palm Sunday on April 13, 2025 this year and ends on Easter Sunday, April 20. However there are a week's worth of ...