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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Good Friday

Maronite Christians attend a Good Friday procession in Haifa on March 29, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
March 31, 2024, 5:04 pm
Haifa Christians stage solemn Good Friday march in Hezbollah’s crosshairs
The threat of rockets has caused northern worshipers to alter their plans on a holiday weekend that they are nonetheless determined to observe
By Canaan Lidor
US President Joe Biden is greeted by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Jane Hartley, center, he steps off Air Force One at Belfast International Airport in Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 11, 2023. Biden is visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland in part to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. At right is United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland Joe Kennedy III. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
April 12, 2023, 9:33 am
Biden arrives in Northern Ireland to help mark decades of relative peace
US president says trip priority is to ‘keep the peace’; will deliver congratulations, encourage work on universally beneficial economic policies; will visit ancestral hometowns
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Colleen Long and Jill Lawless
Christian worshippers carrying a wooden cross arrive at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, during a Good Friday procession along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering) in Jerusalem's Old City on April 2, 2021. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)
April 2, 2021, 11:06 am
Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem as COVID restrictions eased
Commemorations larger than last year but still lacking the thousands of foreign pilgrims who usually throng the streets of Old City, Bethlehem for Holy Week
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Pastor Frank Heidkamp talks to a visitor in a car during an easter service under the open sky in Duesseldorf drive-in cinema, western Germany, on April 10, 2020, amidst the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Ina FASSBENDER / AFP)
April 11, 2020, 1:22 pm
Jesus takes the wheel at German Good Friday drive-in
Vehicles of the faithful line up side-by-side in parking spaces for Easter service
By AFP
A Christian worshiper stands at the closed door of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, believed by many Christians to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem, April 10, 2020 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
April 11, 2020, 8:13 am
In a test of faith, Christians mark Good Friday in isolation
The faithful try to find solace in online services, upholding traditions in a world locked down by the coronavirus pandemic
By Joseph Krauss and ELANA SCHOR
Orthodox Christians gather with wooden Crosses in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as they celebrate the Good Friday in a procession on Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem, on April 26, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
April 26, 2019, 3:20 pm
A week after Western brethren, Orthodox Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem
Thousands of worshipers retrace the steps Jesus is said to have taken on the way to his death, along the Old City’s ‘Via Dolorosa’
By AFP
Children using sticks to beat an effigy of Judas on Good Friday, April 19, 2019, in the town of Pruchnik, Poland. (Hubert Lewkowicz / AFP)
April 24, 2019, 1:02 am
Poland opens hate crime probe into beating, burning of Jewish effigy
Video of anti-Semitic Easter revival in which kids take sticks to Judas doll sparks outrage among both Poles and Jews; minister calls ritual ‘idiotic, pseudo-religious chutzpah’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
An effigy of Judas on Good Friday, hanging in the town of Pruchnik, on April 19, 2019, in southern Poland. (Hubert Lewkowicz / AFP)
April 22, 2019, 9:54 pm
Poland’s Catholic Church condemns Jewish effigy ritual
After Good Friday event in southeast Poland, Bishop says church ‘will never tolerate manifestations of contempt towards members of any nation, including the Jewish people’
By AP
A resident of the small town of Pruchnik in southeast Poland beats up an effigy of Judah Iscariot featuring a long nose and ultra-Orthodox sidecurls and brimmed hat, on April 19, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)
April 21, 2019, 12:36 pm
Polish crowd beats, burns Judas effigy with hat, sidelocks of ultra-Orthodox Jew
In Good Friday ceremony in small town of Pruchnik, residents stage public trial for Jesus’ betrayer, depicted with long nose and Haredi attire
By Michael Bachner
Chinese Catholic pilgrims carry a wooden cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City during the Good Friday procession on April 19, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
April 19, 2019, 1:42 pm
Pilgrims mark Good Friday in Jerusalem as Passover and Easter converge
Confluence of Christian and Jewish festivals leads to flocks of tourists amid festive atmosphere in the holy city
By AP
Christian pilgrims light candles inside the Holy Sepulchre church during Good Friday in Jerusalem Friday, April 14, 2017. (Dan Balilty/AP)
April 14, 2017, 8:48 pm
Christians celebrate Good Friday in Jerusalem
Pilgrims from around the world mark crucifixion by following the Old City path traditionally walked by Jesus
By AFP
A penitent acting as Jesus is nailed to the cross as they re-enact the passion and death of Christ during the annual observance of Lent on Good Friday in Cainta town, Rizal province, east of Manila on April 14, 2017. (Ted Aljibe/AFP)
April 14, 2017, 6:34 pm
Extreme religious acts mark Good Friday in the Philippines
Tourists watch crucifixions, worshipers whipping themselves to a bloody state as vendors hawk soft drinks, snacks, hats and umbrellas
By Gretchen Malalad
Coptic priests stand near the coffins of victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark's church in Alexandria the previous day during a funeral procession at the Monastery of Marmina in the city of Borg El-Arab, east of the northern port city on April 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)
April 14, 2017, 2:56 pm
Egyptian Copts mark solemn Good Friday after church bombings
Rites are especially mournful for the Christian minority following last Sunday’s suicide attacks that killed 45
By AFP
Serbian Orthodox Christian pilgrims carry a large metal cross from Serbia along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering), during the Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City on April 29, 2016. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)
April 29, 2016, 8:05 pm
Orthodox Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem
Hundreds of Israeli security forces deployed along Old City’s narrow streets to regulate flow of worshipers
By AFP
Pope Francis leads the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession celebrated in front of the Colosseum on Good Friday in Rome, Friday, March 25, 2016. (AP/Andrew Medichini)
March 26, 2016, 5:39 am
Pope decries terror profaning God’s name
Francis also condemns ‘indifference and inhospitality’ to refugees risking lives in unseaworthy smugglers’ boats
By Frances D'Emilio
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