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Members of the Alvarez family add the finishing touches to their sawdust carpet in preparation for a Holy Week procession in Antigua, Guatemala, on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Hours to make and seconds to destroy, Holy Week flower carpets are a labor of love in Guatemala

Associated Press

A woman suspected in the kidnapping and killing of an 8-year-old girl, is dragged out of a police vehicle by a mob in Taxco, Mexico, Thursday, March 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mob in Mexico brutally beats suspected kidnapper to death hours before Holy Week procession

By Fernanda Pesce - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in the St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so, saying in a new memoir he still has “many projects to bring to fruition.” Francis, 87, made the comments in an autobiography, “Life: My Story Through History,” which is being published Tuesday, March 19, 2024, the 11th anniversary of his installation as pope. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis skips Palm Sunday homily at start of busy Holy Week that will test his health

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md., Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, before President Donald Trump arrives after he tested positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Walter Reed reviewing disputed Catholic chaplaincy contract, medical center says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Priests participate in the Easter Sunday Mass led by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Next year, why not spend Holy Week in the Holy Land?

By Itai Schimmel

Trump attackers, take stock

Pope Francis meets children at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican: Pope Francis to leave hospital on Saturday, eats pizza

Associated Press

The buildings of the banking district stand behind a cross on top of a church in Frankfurt, Germany, on Good Friday, April 2, 2021. For a second year running the COVID-19 pandemic had a major effect on global celebrations of the Easter Holy Week. Many services were held outdoors or behind closed doors, but despite these restrictions the faithful found ways to mark one of the most important times in the Christian calendar. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

AP PHOTOS: Holy Week muted but joyful for world’s Christians

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Lighted candles are placed on empty pews as Catholic priest presides over a Palm Sunday mass to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at the Saint Peter Parish Church in Quezon city, Philippines on March 28, 2021. The government banned religious activities during the Holy Week as it enters into stricter lockdown measures starting next week while the country struggles to control an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

The Latest: Metro Manila, outlying provinces go on lockdown

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this April 29, 2016, file photo, then-Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Pope Francis at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

As Holy Week arrives, President Biden serves as modern-day Pontius Pilate

By Tim Constantine

Pope Francis attends a Mass for Holy Thursday, inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Francis celebrated the Holy Week Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, which was largely empty of faithful because of restrictions aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope hails priests, health workers as ‘the saints next door’

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

A fruit vendor, wearing a protective face mask, makes her way through a popular market in Managua, Nicaragua, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Restaurants are empty, there's little traffic in the streets and beach tourists are sparse headed into Holy Week despite the government's encouragement for Nicaraguans to go about their normal lives. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Nicaragua inaction on virus raises fears of regional spread

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

Cross Point Church Pastor Keith Williams preaches to his congregation via online video due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.. The Bristol Tennessee church has gone to strictly online services and are planning for Easter to be online as well. (David Crigger/Bristol Herald Courier via AP)

Christians turn to Zoom, Facebook to save Easter from the coronavirus crisis

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

A man walks by Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's Square during Pope Francis' weekly general audience, streamed by the Vatican television due to restrictions to contain the Covid-19 virus, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Palm Sunday services held without public; some on rooftops

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Debris are seen inside Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Firefighters declared success Tuesday in a more than 12-hour battle to extinguish an inferno engulfing Paris' iconic Notre Dame cathedral that claimed its spire and roof, but spared its bell towers and the purported Crown of Christ. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

Emmanuel Macron says Notre Dame to be rebuilt in five years

By Jabeen Bhatti — Special to The Washington Times

Pope Francis holds a palm frond as he celebrates a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis blesses palm branches as he ushers in Holy Week

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this March 29, 2015 pool photo, Pope Francis celebrates a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. Pope Francis has walked solemnly through St. Peter's Square in a Palm Sunday procession to usher in Holy Week ahead of Easter. Francis clutched a palm frond for the religious service, celebrated outside St. Peter's Basilica. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool)

Holy Week is about humility – there is no other way, Pope Francis says

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency