Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune’s senior religion writer, Peggy Fletcher Stack, is on assignment in the Middle East. Besides her deeper reporting, she is sharing shorter daily dispatches. This ...

A week from this Sunday is the annual Christian festival of Palm Sunday, the day on which the faithful recall Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem. The story is well known. Jesus entered the holy ...

NORWALK -- Parishioners of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church assembled in a courtyard Sunday morning to witness the blessing of palm fronds by a priest in a traditional Latin-language rite, accompanied ...

From the jubilation of Palm Sunday to the despair of Maundy Thursday to the grief of Good Friday to the joy of Easter Sunday, music helps worshippers navigate the emotional journey of Holy Week.

NAUVOO, Ill. — Local worship band Living Water will lead a Palm Sunday hymn sing at 2 p.m. Sunday at the historic Nauvoo Theatre. The event also will include performances by the band and a back-up ...

On Sunday as we hear the long, gruesome drama of the Passion narrative, it is difficult to keep enough space in our minds for the other lessons, but the Philippians hymn (2:5–11) is not only a ...

As they walked through the streets of Qaraqosh, participants sang Palm Sunday hymns in both Arabic and Syriac and waved olive branches. Thousands celebrate the beginning of Holy Week on April 13, 2025 ...

The streets of Qaraqosh, Iraq — also known as Baghdeda — were filled with joy as residents celebrating Palm Sunday carried olive branches and palm fronds in a grand procession of nearly 20,000 ...