by News Feed Editor | Apr 6, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — On Easter Sunday (April 5), President Donald Trump shared a profanity-laced message for the people of Iran on his Truth Social platform, capping a Holy Week filled with both sacred and profane messages from the White House. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day,...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 6, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — By any measure, the Holy Week in Jerusalem was eerily quiet as a result of restrictions imposed by Israel against large gatherings due to the U.S.-Israel war in Iran. On Palm Sunday, the Latin Patriarch, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, was barred by...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 6, 2026 | Religion
LONDON (AP) — On a gray afternoon in the days before Easter, a dozen or so schoolchildren straggled into a side building at Rochester Cathedral and began their transformation. Off went the jackets and backpacks, on came burgundy cassocks and white surplices. Then they...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 6, 2026 | Religion
JDEIDEH, Lebanon (AP) — It was not how the Rev. Maroun Ghafari had envisioned this Holy Week — for years, he had held Easter sermons in his predominantly Christian village of Alma al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel. This year, he is preaching...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 5, 2026 | Religion
VATICAN CITY (RNS) – During his first Easter address on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV made an impassioned global appeal to end wars and embrace dialogue, following a series of celebrations leading up to Easter in which the pope emphasized the theme of peace. “Let those who...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 3, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — Shortly after the Rev. Paul Joseph Keller, two fellow Catholic priests and a nun were ushered into the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility outside Chicago on Thursday (April 2), a guard escorted five immigrant detainees to a space on the...
