Easter & Good Friday in Ireland Good Friday (Aoinean Cheasta) is an occasion for Christian, particularly Catholics, to commemorate the... View More Easter & Good Friday in Greece Greece plays a host to religious festivals with deeply rooted customs and centuries-old traditions all year round....
Good Friday is a Christian religious holiday observed annually to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Good Friday is also known by the names of Holy Friday, Great Friday, and Jesus’ Sacrifice. Good Friday is part of the Holy Week, And also a part of the Easter Triduum (the three...
Good Friday 2025 Good Friday arrives every year on the last Friday before Easter. In 2025, this festival will fall on the 11th of April. It is the day that is observed to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus. In German, this day is called Karfreitag which means the sorrowful Friday. It ...
Some Catholics treat Good Friday as a day of fasting, while others observe a partial fast involving the exclusion of meat. Some homes keep a quiet atmosphere, with little or no outside activities and limited television, radio, and computer use, in observing Good Friday. Others choose to play...
Many Roman Catholics also participate in the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday. This devotional exercise, in which worshipers pray and meditate on fourteen scenes from the Passion story, dates back to the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, it achieved widespread popularity hundreds of years later in ...
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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...
Good Friday is a very important day for all Haitian Christians, especially Catholics. On Good Friday in Haiti, Christians commemorate the arrest, trial and death of Jesus on the cross. Haitian Christians remember that Jesus died for our sins....
Now head of the Progressive Unionist Party, he spoke to CGTN in his office on the Shankill Road in Belfast, and was candid about the role he played in The Troubles as a young man. "Our job was to terrorize Catholics because of what the IRA was doing. It woul...
Good Friday is a day of fasting requiring Catholics to refrain from eating meat.Traditionally, there is no Mass and no celebrationof the Eucharist on Good Friday. A liturgy may still be performed and communion, if taken, comes from hosts consecrated on Holy Thursday. ...