In a country defined by deep inequalities and cultural divisions, the Semana Santa celebration plays a key role in forging national identity.

SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — With tears of emotion often flowing down their faces, tens of thousands of faithful have packed the rooftops, bridges and narrow streets of this historic city in southern Spain ...

Christians are celebrating Holy Week with processions and reenactments in places like Jerusalem, Brazil, Nigeria, India, Mexico and Philippines. The week between Palm Sunday and Easter, known as Holy ...

Unlike earlier Holy Week processions in Antigua, typically led by men carrying heavy floats, this tradition saw women bear the sacred 18th-century statue through the town’s historic streets. Clad in ...

The Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest invited the community to begin their journey through Holy Week on Sunday morning, with a celebration of the Sunday of the Passion, or Palm Sunday.

"Holy Week." The words themselves represent something counter-cultural to an ever so consumeristic, violent, fearful and radically individualized culture. A week given over to the Holy? With Palm and ...

Penitents of the Los Estudiantes brotherhood look up at the sky after being told that they will not go out in procession due to the rain, that has cancelled several processions, during Holy Week in ...