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Sunday, April 14, 2019
Thousands of pilgrims mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThousands of Christian pilgrims are taking part in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Christian Holy Week.
Worshipers carry palm fronds and olive branches on Sunday and march from the top of the Mount of Olives to the Old City of Jerusalem. Israeli police say an estimated 15,000 people are taking part in the procession.
Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem and is the start of the church’s most solemn week, which includes the Good Friday re-enactment of Jesus’s crucifixion and death and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
The procession makes its way from the Mount of Olives past the Garden of Gethsemane where, according to Biblical tradition, Jesus was betrayed, then finally into the alleyways of the Old City.
— AP
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