ELCHE, Spain (AP) — Spain is getting ready for one of its most revered holiday periods of the year: Easter Week, which means thousands of colorful and noisy religious street processions that draw ...
SEVILLE (Reuters) – For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, crowds thronged the streets of Seville as one of Spain’s most iconic Easter processions wound its way through the city from ...
STORY: There are six processions during Seville's Madruga, but the most famous gathering is the Virgin of Macarena. News of its cancelation left many worshippers in tears. The cancelation of La ...
Across Europe from Sweden to Sicily, the importance Christians place on the religious holiday of Easter shines through in the wonderfully varied ways in which it is prepared for and celebrated. From ...
ZAMORA, Spain — Wailing bugles, rhythmic drumbeats and eerie religious chants can be heard once again across Spain this year as the country’s massively popular Easter religious processions return ...
Christians around the world gathered on Sunday to mark the end of Holy Week and celebrate Easter. Festivities took on many forms. While some worshippers reenacted the Passion of the Christ, others ...
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ELCHE, Spain (AP) — Spain is getting ready for one of its most revered holiday periods of the year: Easter Week, which means thousands of colorful and noisy religious street processions that draw ...
Mari Carmen Perez brushes palms to be used during Palm Sunday processions at a shop in Elche, eastern Spain, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Credit: Bernat Armangue/AP.) Listen ELCHE, Spain — Spain is ...