JERUSALEM: Worshippers mark Orthodox Good Friday in traditional Jerusalem procession.

Record ID: 872681

  • Title: JERUSALEM: Worshippers mark Orthodox Good Friday in traditional Jerusalem procession.
  • Date: 23rd April 2006
  • Summary: CLOSE OF TWO WOMEN WEARING SCARVES PRAYING
  • Embargoed: 8th May 2006 13:00
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  • Topics: Religion
  • Reuters ID: LVA9RN92MQK4MXIUXDHZ15UAHMMU
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  • Story Text: Hundreds of Orthodox Christians pilgrims marched along the Via
    Dolorosa in the old city of Jerusalem to mark Easter Good Friday (April
    21).
    Local Palestinian Christian Orthodox, Armenian and Assyrian along with
    pilgrims, nuns and monks carried wooden crosses and sang hymns as they walked
    the alleys of Jerusalem's old city to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
    revered as the site where Jesus was crucified and buried.
    The Via Dolorosa contains fourteen stations in which tradition claims
    that Jesus was condemned to death, beaten, saw his mother, all the way to the
    last station where it is believed he was placed in a tomb at the Holy
    Sepulchre.
    Good Friday comes two days before Easter Sunday and marks the day Jesus
    turned himself in to be crucified on the cross, according to tradition, and
    rose from the dead on Easter Sunday, the cornerstone of the Christian
    faith.
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