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Good Friday traditions. Catholics around the city commemorated the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday.

It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most ...

Christian devotees from the Philippines were nailed to a cross on Friday in a reenactment of Jesus Christ's crucifixion in ...

The term “Good” as applied to Good Friday is an Old English expression meaning holy. It’s often called Holy Friday also. But ...

Ruben Enaje, 64, is seen alongside two other devotees nailed to wooden crosses in front of huge crowds in the village of San ...

Two days before Easter, Christians worldwide will observe Good Friday, one of the most somber days of the religion's year.

Catholics in the Philippines marked Good Friday with gory re-enactments of the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, ...

A crown of thorns and a palm leaf on burlap, representing the Good Friday and Palm Sunday holidays. A depiction of the three crosses of Calvary with a beautiful sunrise or sunset with blue, pink, ...

Who invented crucifixion? The Persians are commonly credited with this, but evidence suggests that it may have been the Greeks.

Today is Good Friday, a religious holiday that's a public holiday in some places. Here's what you need to know about mail and ...