JERUSALEM: CROWDS OF CHRISTIANS MARK GOOD FRIDAY BY TAKING VIA DOLOROSA ROUTE IN JERUSALEM

Record ID: 647612

  • Title: JERUSALEM: CROWDS OF CHRISTIANS MARK GOOD FRIDAY BY TAKING VIA DOLOROSA ROUTE IN JERUSALEM
  • Date: 25th March 2005
  • Summary: (BN08)JERUSALEM (MARCH 25, 2005)(REUTERS) 1. LAS/SV OF OLD CITY (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. SLV/SV WORSHIPPERS ON VIA DOLOROSA CARRYING CROSSES (3 SHOTS) 0.27 3. SV OF PEOPLE ON PATH THAT JESUS WALKED BEFORE HIS DEATH 0.33 4. CU WOMAN READING BIBLE AND SINGING 0.40 5. SV WOMAN HOLDING CROSS 0.46 6. LAS OF ISRAELI SECURITY STANDING ON BUILDING WATCHING PROCESSION 0.50 7. LV OF PROCESSION 0.54 8. SV/CU PEOPLE HOLDING CROSSES (2 SHOTS) 1.08 9. SV PROCESSION 1.14 10. CU WOMAN IN PROCESSION WEARING HEAD DRESS 1.19 11. SV/CU/LV OF GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION IN OLD CITY (5 SHOTS) 1.49 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVAH83F5684QF8A4PK7MDJ618BJ
  • Story Text: Crowds of Christians mark Good Friday by taking the
    Via Dolorosa route in Jerusalem that Jesus Christ is said
    to have taken before his cruxifiction.



    Hundreds of Christians participated in the Good
    Friday (March 25, 2005) procession in Jerusalem's Old City to
    commemorate Jesus' final days.

    Worshippers carried crosses and followed the
    procession down the Via Dolorosa tracing Jesus' last steps
    to mark the most sombre period of the Christian calendar.

    The Way of the Cross, also called Stations of the
    Cross, Via Crucis, and Via Dolorosa, is one the most
    popular Catholic devotions. The origin may be traced to the
    Holy Land, where the Via Dolorosa at Jerusalem was
    reverently marked out since the earliest times of
    Christianity.

    The Friday before Easter Sunday (March 27) is the day
    the Christians observe as the day of Christ's crucifixion.

    Many worshippers make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem and
    the Church of Nativity, where it is believed Jesus was
    born, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem to mark Jesus'
    death and his Resurrection which is celebrated on Easter
    Sunday.


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