Palm Sunday is the final Sunday in the Lenten season signifying the beginning of Holy Week. The Holy Week is the week leading up to Easter and is held in remembrance of the time of Jesus in ...

Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 29, 2015. Tens of thousands joined the pope with olive and palm branches in St. Peter's Square. They ushered in the holy week, ahead of Easter.

Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian communities celebrate Palm Sunday, marking the beginning of Holy Week, the most sacred time of year for Christians. (The Orthodox Christian community ...

She described how religious tourists to Jerusalem reenacted the events of Holy Week. On Palm Sunday afternoon ... eastern Christians use the Julian Calendar to calculate Easter, the celebrations ...

Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the most sacred and solemn period in the Christian calendar. It sets the stage for the events leading to Jesus’ arrest on Holy Thursday and his ...

Palm Sunday kicks off the aptly named Holy Week, which also includes Good Friday ... be one of the most important days in the liturgical calendar,” says Anne Halloin, a historical theologian ...

Palm Sunday is the start of Holy Week, when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem on a donkey with people waving palms to welcome him. Holy Thursday is when Jesus shared his last supper with his disciples.As ...

Christians during Palm Sunday procession in Kisumu ... it later because they follow the Julian calendar. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, historically the most sacred time of ...

In Holy Week, the days just before Easter, one can catch Catholics in some ancient religious practices – some are so rare, they’re done only once a year. Beginning Palm Sunday – March 28 ...

Palm Sunday - which commemorates the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem - marks the beginning of a holy week for Christians, which ends with Easter. Churches in the country livestreamed Mass ...