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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Palm Sunday

Armenian Christians, accompanied by Israeli volunteers, enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
April 14, 2025, 10:51 pm
On Palm Sunday, Israeli volunteers escort Christian processions to report racist incidents
Volunteers from the Religious Freedom Data Center accompany Armenian, Latin, clerics to and from Church of Holy Sepulchre during their annual holy week ritual
By Sue Surkes
Pope Francis arrives at the end of the mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
April 13, 2025, 3:46 pm
Convalescing Pope Francis greets faithful at Vatican, delivers brief remarks
88-year-old pontiff delights worshippers gathered at St. Peter’s Square for Palm Sunday, in 2nd appearance there since battling life-threatening pneumonia
By Colleen Barry
Christian pilgrims walk with palm fronds as they circle in a procession around the Edicule, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on April 2, 2023, Palm Sunday according to Catholics. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
April 2, 2023, 3:31 pm
Palm Sunday marked in Jerusalem in shadow of escalating attacks on Christians
Catholics attend processions at Old City’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, with churches reeling from mounting violence and acts of desecration
By ToI Staff
Pope Francis blesses faithful with olive and palm branches before celebrating the Palm Sunday's mass in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, April 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Filippo Monteforte, pool)
April 2, 2023, 2:33 pm
After being discharged from hospital, Pope Francis marks Palm Sunday at Vatican
After hospitalization for bronchitis, 86-year-old pontiff battles hoarseness, talks about ‘solitude of sickness’ during Mass address at St. Peter’s Square
By Frances D'Emilio
Pope Francis helped to get on his car at the end of weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
March 29, 2023, 11:19 pm
Pope to be hospitalized for days with lung infection
Holy See says Pope Francis suffering from difficulty breathing but rules out COVID-19 virus as Christians prepare to launch Holy Week
By Nicole Winfield
Nuns pose for a selfie as they mark Palm Sunday on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
March 29, 2021, 12:07 pm
Christians mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, Bethlehem as COVID constraints eased
Masked worshipers parade from Mount of Olives to Holy City, in a happier and more populous celebration than last year; Christians attend services in the West Bank
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Pope Francis holds a palm branch as he celebrates Palm Sunday Mass behind closed doors in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 5, 2020, during the lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/pool/Alberto Pizzoli)
April 5, 2020, 4:11 pm
Handful of monks attend Jerusalem’s Palm Sunday march amid pandemic
Event, which usually draws thousands of pilgrims to commemorate Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, scaled back due to virus
By Moshe Edri
Catholic priests carry palm fronds at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed by many Christians to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2019. (AP Photo/ Sebastian Scheiner)
April 14, 2019, 7:15 pm
Thousands of pilgrims mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem
Worshipers march from the Mount of Olives to the Old City to commemorate Jesus’ entry into the city
By AP
Roman Catholic clergymen pray during the Easter Sunday procession on April 1, 2018, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)
April 1, 2018, 4:31 pm
Catholics celebrate Easter in ancient Jerusalem church
Roman Catholic worshipers pray and sing hymns in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate Palm Sunday
By AP
In this Dec. 11, 2016 file photo, an Egyptian Coptic nun weeps as she looks at damage inside the St. Mark Cathedral in central Cairo, following a bombing. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
April 12, 2017, 3:32 am
Churches in southern Egypt will not celebrate Easter
Coptic diocese in city of Minya says festivities canceled in mourning for 45 Christians murdered in IS terror attacks this week
By MENNA ZAKI
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the Annual International Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, January 23, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)
April 10, 2017, 8:16 pm
Rivlin sends condolences to Egypt after church attacks
President says ‘despicable acts of terrorism’ against Coptic Christians on Palm Sunday won’t succeed in dividing Egyptian people
By ToI Staff
Christians hold candles and palm fonds during the Palm Sunday mass inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 9, 2017 during Palm Sunday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 9, 2017, 9:53 pm
Worshipers throng to Jerusalem for Palm Sunday
Crowds gather at Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Old City and Mount of Olives one week ahead of Easter
By AP
Egyptians walk past bloodstains in a street near a church in Alexandria after a bomb blast struck worshippers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday on April 9, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
April 9, 2017, 4:24 pm
Islamic State claims bloody Egypt church bombings
Interior ministry says suicide bomber carried out Alexandria attack in attempt to target Coptic Pope Tawadros II
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A general view shows forensics collecting evidence at the site of a bomb blast which struck worshipers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday at the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in the Nile Delta City of Tanta, Egypt on April 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
April 9, 2017, 2:58 pm
At least 37 killed in onslaught on Egyptian Copts on Palm Sunday
Over two dozen killed in a church attack near Cairo; then bomb hits Alexandria’s St. Mark’s Church, where Coptic pope was conducting mass, killing 11
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Egyptians wheel away a body near a church in Alexandria after a bomb blast struck worshippers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday on April 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Stringer)
April 9, 2017, 1:59 pm
Security Council decries Egypt church bombings as ‘cowardly’
At least 43 killed in IS-claimed Palm Sunday targeting Coptic Christians; Iran’s Khamenei says US made a ‘strategic mistake’ carrying out Syria strike
By Tamar Pileggi
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