Tag: Good Friday

• Saturday, April 20th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Vatican denounces widespread inequality in the world during the Good Friday service

  

  Pope Francis listened as a preacher denounced the widespread inequality in the world at a Good Friday service on the day Christians recall Jesus' death by crucifixion. During the “Passion of the Lord” service in St Peter's Basilica, songs in Latin recounted the last hours in Jesus' life, from his arrest to his burial.

• Saturday, April 7th 2012 - 07:12 UTC

  Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter mass

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter Mass in the eve of Good Friday after returning from his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba.

• Saturday, April 7th 2012 - 06:59 UTC

  Churches in Cuba celebrate Easter for the first time in over half a century

  

  Bells rang from Roman Catholic churches throughout Havana on Friday to remember the death of Jesus Christ as Cubans celebrated a holiday on Good Friday for the first time in more than half a century.