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Pope Francis' chair is seen prior to the start of the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) in front of the Colosseum on Good Friday, in Rome, Friday, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini/Pool)
Vatican confirms pope will preside over Easter Vigil after he skipped Good Friday at last minute
The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis will preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night. That is after he decided at the last minute to skip his participation in the Good Friday … more
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Members of the Alvarez family add the finishing touches to their sawdust carpet in preparation for a Holy Week procession in Antigua, Guatemala, on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Hours to make and seconds to destroy, Holy Week flower carpets are a labor of love in Guatemala
Each Holy Week, thousands of residents of the colonial, volcano-fringed city of Antigua participate in some of Guatemala’s oldest and most popular Easter traditions. Some carry the block-long … more
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Rev. Elaine Saralegui, wearing a rainbow-colored clergy stole and her clerical collar, leads a service at the Metropolitan Community Church, an LGBTQ+ inclusive house of worship, in Matanzas, Cuba, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. In recent years, the communist-run island barred anti-gay discrimination, and a 2022 government-backed “family law” — approved by popular vote — allowed same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
LGBTQ-inclusive church in Cuba welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps
After the 1959 revolution, Cuba repressed gay people and many were sent to labor camps. But the communist-run island has made strides in recent years when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights. A … more
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Cars drive along in traffic after heavy rainfall in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Zelenskyy fires more aides in a reshuffle as Russia launches drones and missiles across Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers in a continuing reshuffle while Russia unleashed fresh attacks overnight. Zelenskyy dismissed top aide … more
Police gather in Eden, Netherlands, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Heavily armed police have cordoned off part of a Dutch town and say that multiple people are being held hostage in a building there. It is unclear how many people are being held. Police said in a message on X, formerly Twitter, that “at the moment there is no indication of a terrorist motive.” (AP Photo/Aleksandar Furtula)
Police say multiple people are being held hostage in a Dutch town. They have evacuated nearby homes
Heavily armed police have cordoned off part of a Dutch town and say that multiple people are being held hostage in a building there. It is unclear how many people are being held. Earlier Saturday, … more
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FILE - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference to support Jerusalem at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 12, 2023. The Palestinian Authority has announced the formation of a new Cabinet as it faces international pressure to reform. President Mahmoud Abbas, who has led the PA for nearly two decades and remains in overall control, announced the new government in a presidential decree on Thursday March 28, 2024. None of the incoming ministers are well-known figures. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
The US welcomes the new Palestinian government following its repeated calls for political reform
JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States has welcomed the formation of a new Palestinian autonomy government, signaling it is accepting the revised Cabinet lineup as a step toward Palestinian political … more
Faithful carry an 18th century wooden Christ before the start of a procession the in Procida Island, Italy, early Friday, March 29, 2024. Italy is known for the religious processions that take over towns big and small when Catholic feast days are celebrated throughout the year. But even in a country where public displays of popular piety are a centuries-old tradition, Procida's Holy Week commemorations stand out. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
AP PHOTOS: Young and old participate in Holy Week religious processions on Italy's Procida island
PROCIDA, Italy (AP) — Italy is known for the religious processions that take over towns big and small throughout the year when Catholic feast days are celebrated. But even in a country where public … more
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FILE - Israeli police officers scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a protest against possible changes to the military draft laws, outside a military recruitment office in Jerusalem, on March 4, 2024. Israel's High Court ruling Thursday to curtail subsidies for ultra-Orthodox men has thrown Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political future into grave jeopardy. Netanyahu now has until Monday to present the court with a plan to dismantle what the justices called a system that privileges the ultra-Orthodox at the expense of the country's majority. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
Israel's high court says the government must stop funding seminaries. Could that topple Netanyahu?
A dramatic decision by Israel's Supreme Court on drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the Israeli military could spell political trouble for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ruling Thursday calls … more
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Vatican ushers carry Pope Francis chair prior to the start of the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) at the Colosseum on Good Friday, in Rome, Friday, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope skips Good Friday event to preserve health ahead of Easter, Vatican says
The Vatican says Pope Francis has skipped the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health, adding to concerns about his frail condition during a particularly busy … more
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FILE - Tourists visit the ancient Acropolis hill during a heat wave in Athens, Greece, on July 21, 2023. Climate change is making heat waves crawl slower across the globe and last longer with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people
A new study says climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas. Friday's study … more
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Christians walk the Way of the Cross procession that commemorates Jesus Christ's crucifixion on Good Friday, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday celebrations
Hundreds of Christians have joined the Good Friday procession in Jerusalem’s Old City, commemorating one of the faith’s most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing … more
A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.
Burned bodies of Easter pilgrims still lie inside a bus that crashed off a bridge in South Africa
Emergency workers in South Africa are searching for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering plunged off a bridge and caught fire. An 8-year-old child was the only … more
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Devout Catholics in the Philippines marked Good Friday with a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in San Fernando City, north of the capital Manila. The crucifixion ritual has been a tradition in the province of Pampanga for decades. Devotees undergo the re-enactment in the belief that extreme pain is a way to atone for their sins, attain miracle cures for illnesses or give thanks to God. (AP video/Iya Forbes)
A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace
A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition. Carpenter and painter Ruben Enaje says this year he's … more
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AP Week in Pictures: Asia
March 22-28, 2024 Lawyers file a lawsuit against the presidential election results in Indonesia, Thailand tries to help displaced people in Myanmar, and the Myanmar military holds the annual … more
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An anti-war advertising poster with Arabic words that read: Lebanon doesn't want the war," appears on a street in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. A war of words that has unfolded in Lebanon show longstanding schisms in the small country over Hezbollah, now amplified by the militant group's role in the Lebanon-Israel border clashes and by fears that an already crisis-hit Lebanon could be dragged into an all-out war.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Christian nun in Lebanon prays for the Shiite Muslim fighters of Hezbollah. A furor ensues.
A video showing a Lebanese nun asking young students to pray for the “men of the resistance,” a reference to Hezbollah fighters, has sparked controversy in Lebanon. The Lebanese Shiite militant … more
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A woman suspected in the kidnapping and killing of an 8-year-old girl, is dragged out of a police vehicle by a mob in Taxco, Mexico, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Police then picked her up off the ground and took her away. The Guerrero state prosecutors’ office later confirmed the woman died of her injuries. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Mob in Mexico brutally beats suspected kidnapper to death hours before Holy Week procession
A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco has brutally beat a woman to death because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the city's Holy Week … more
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FILE - A Russian soldier secures an area as a massive blaze can be seen over a concert venue on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 22, 2024. The attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed over 140 people marked a major failure of Russian security agencies. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov, File)
The Moscow concert massacre was a major security blunder. What's behind that failure?
The Moscow concert hall attack a week ago that left more than 140 people dead was a major blunder for Russia’s law enforcement agencies. While the government register of terrorist and extremist … more
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A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.
Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is only survivor
Authorities say a bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa, killing at least 45 people. The only survivor of … more
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Members of the Spanish Legion, an elite unit of the Spanish Army, hold up the El Cristo de la Buena Muerte, or Christ of the Good Death, during a ceremony ahead of the procession in Malaga, Southern Spain, southern Spain, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Hundreds of processions will take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
AP Week in Pictures: Global
March 21-28, 2024 From celebrations marking Holy Week to a volcano erupting in Iceland to cherry blossoms in Washington, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from … more
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Members of Brothers and Sisters in Arms and Bonot Alternativa (Women Building an Alternative) protest Israel's exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service, near the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Israeli court halts subsidies for ultra-Orthodox, deepening turmoil over mandatory military service
Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered an end to government subsidies for many ultra-Orthodox men who don't serve in the army. It's a blockbuster ruling that could have far-reaching consequences for … more
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