Christians around the world are commemorating Jesus’ crucifixion without the solemn church services or emotional processions of past years.
Insular, traditional Jewish community, resistant to state authority, sees spike in COVID-19 cases in Israel.because he wears robes and goes about barefoot, lives near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher year-round. On Friday morning, he had the plaza outside to himself. He said Good Friday has special meaning this year.
Ten people — five from the Vatican’s health office and five from a prison in Padua, in northern Italy, where infections are particularly widespread — will participate in the procession, which will circle several times around the obelisk in St. Peter’s Square. There will be no festivities this year, as the country battles an outbreak that has claimed more than 15,000 lives. Many churches are, instead, holding services online.
In the United States, the Good Friday fast typically observed by Catholics was taken up by some in other denominations as a means to connect more deeply with their faith during difficult times. In the Philippines, Asia’s bastion of Catholicism, Masses and other solemn gatherings have been put on hold, including folk rituals that feature real-life crucifixions and usually draw thousands of tourists and penitents. The annual procession of the “Black Nazarene,” a centuries-old statue of Jesus, through downtown Manila, has also been canceled.
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