The annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Oxmoor Road in Homewood on Good Friday afternoon drew more than 100 believers who ...

Many traditions include self-flagellation or even re-enacting the crucifixion to emulate the suffering of Jesus Christ.

This was the first time members had set foot on the church site after the fire in which nearly 80% of the congregation had ...

Carrying the cross means more than bearing personal suffering -- it means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside ...

Every Holy Week, streets across the Philippines transform into open-air stages for one of the country’s most unique and ...

The painting, Christ Carrying the Cross (around 1565), will go on view at the Los Angeles museum on 1 May. It depicts a visibly pained figure of Christ in a pale red robe against a black backdrop ...

Unable to attend the Good Friday ceremony in person for the third consecutive year, the pope offered deep meditations for the ...

Thousands of people recited prayers while carrying large wooden crosses and walking through the streets of the Old City of ...

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

For the second year in a row, Steve George is carrying a 13-foot wooden cross around the Tennessee Valley in honor of Easter.

In Mexico, Catholics in the town of Taxco held an overnight procession, carrying crosses and ... to emulate the suffering of Jesus Christ carrying the cross. The flagellants use a kind of whip ...

LOS ANGELES — Carrying a tall wooden cross on his shoulder ... departure from the traditional 14-step devotion commemorating Christ’s suffering, crucifixion, and death. Each station depicts ...