Tag: Palm Sunday

Bhubaneswar: Today is the Holy Saturday, celebrated by Christians all over the world as the last day of the Passion Week. Churches in Odisha will be crowded tonight with people attending vigil mass. According to Christian belief, it is the day Jesus descended into Hell before his Resurrection. The days falling between Palm Sunday and […]

Cairo: At least 13 persons were killed in an explosion at a Coptic Church in Tanta city of northern Egypt on Palm Sunday. The blast that targeted St George’s Coptic Church also left 40 people injured, the BBC reported. The cause of the explosion is not yet known but Egypt’s Christian minority has often been […]

Thiruvananthapuram: People in Kerala on Sunday turned up at churches in large numbers to take part in the mass on the occasion of Palm Sunday. Starting this Sunday till Easter Sunday, it is known as ‘Passion Week’, when most Christian households generally turn vegetarian. The convention in Kerala is that coconut fronds are distributed to […]