Easter Sunday
The roots of the Easter story: Where did Christian beliefs about Jesus’ resurrection come from?
By Aaron Gale — March 28, 2024
(The Conversation) — Ideas about resurrection had been developing for centuries before Jesus’ life, but his followers took them in new directions.
Black pastors see popular Easter services as an opportunity to rebuild in-person worship attendance
By Darren Sands — March 28, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — This Easter is an opportunity for Black churches to welcome more visitors to their pews and try to begin reversing attendance trends
After unrest at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Israel curtails freedom of worship for Christians
By Daoud Kuttab — April 13, 2023
(RNS) — Negotiations between church officials and the Israeli police have broken down.
Looking for Easter
By Phyllis Zagano — April 5, 2023
(RNS) — Where is the hope, the joy? Where is the Jesus everyone is singing about?
Rare medieval Easter cipher is up for grabs this Holy Week
By Kathryn Post — April 5, 2023
(RNS) — When decoded, the 15th-century cipher helped calculate the date for Easter.
Pilgrimage and revolution: How Cesar Chavez married faith and ideology in landmark farmworkers’ march
By Lloyd Daniel Barba — April 5, 2023
(The Conversation) — A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
Easter Sunday blasts kill at least 207 in Sri Lanka
By The Associated Press — April 21, 2019
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardena described the bombings as a terrorist attack by religious extremists and said seven suspects had been arrested, though there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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