Western Christians mark Easter at Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church
Hundreds of pilgrims filed into Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Jesus's resurrection, for Easter celebrations Sunday. Catholics and Protestants marked Easter on Sunday, while Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrated Palm Sunday, with Easter Sunday coming for them on April 28. The church, ...
Compared to other imported festivals, Easter in Japan has never really taken off. But why?
In Easter 'Urbi et Orbi' message, Pope Francis calls for peace in war-, conflict-torn world
On Christianity's most joyful day Pope Francis, in his Easter Sunday message, called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, "beginning with the beloved and long-suffering land of Syria," and extending to the entire Middle East, the Korean Peninsula and parts ...
Will Japan ever join the great Easter egg hunt?
A year ago, J-pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu released a song with lyrics and a promotional video that were as saccharine as a chocolate bunny. The song was titled "Easta" — a play on Easter and "a good start" in Japanese — and the ...
Steamed cake that looks like an egg: Form over flavor
The simplest way to transform a ho-hum sweet into something that jumps out at customers is to make it look like a different foodstuff altogether. I've lost count of how many bland creampuff-like treats I've eaten during my lifetime simply because a machine shaped ...
Easter in Japan shows signs of life as businesses tap the final festival frontier
Easter is one of the few major calendar events in the West that goes largely unnoticed here — until now, anyway.
Mystery blaze guts historic New York City church after Orthodox Easter service
A historic church in New York City was destroyed in a raging fire just hours after its Orthodox worshippers celebrated Easter. The fire that started at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan sent plumes of smoke billowing into ...
Calling the moment bittersweet, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcomed thousands of children to the South Lawn of the White House Monday morning for the final Easter Egg Roll of his presidency. The egg rolling began in 1878. Now the event includes ...
Taliban claim Christians targeted in Easter blast in Lahore park near kids' rides fatal to 65
A bomb blast in a park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Easter Sunday has killed 65 people and wounded 300, a provincial government spokesman said. The explosion took place near the children's rides in Gulshan-e-Iqbal park — which was crowded with Christians ...
Hunting for chocolate eggs is popular Easter event, but in New Zealand it was bunnies in the firing line at an annual rabbit-shooting event in one district where they are regarded as pests. Ten thousand rabbits were shot by more than 300 hunters in 27 ...
Pope changes centuries-old rule on Lent foot-washing rite, lets women step up
Pope Francis has changed church regulations to correspond to his rule-breaking celebration of the Easter Week ritual of washing the feet of men and women, Christians and not, in a sign of universal service. Vatican rules for the Holy Thursday rite had long called for ...
Scotland Yard not 'Keystone Cops,' nabs nine in brazen Easter weekend London jewel heist
With meticulous planning and remarkable good fortune, the thieves who broke into a safe deposit in London's diamond district seemed to have pulled off the perfect jewel heist. But their luck ran out Tuesday when more than 200 Scotland Yard officers closed in on ...
