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FILE - Christian faithful march carrying green Palm branches to commemorate Palm Sunday, which marks the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, in the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, April 2, 2023. Palm Sunday will be celebrated by Christians worldwide Sunday, March 24, 2024. It commemorates the Christian belief in the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when palm branches were strewn before him. It marks the start of Holy Week. (AP Photo, File)

The three promises Jesus offered us on Palm Sunday

By Dr. Jack Graham – Special to Higher Ground

Nuns wait for the start of the Palm Sunday's mass celebrate by pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican Sunday, April 2, 2023. Palm Sunday will be celebrated by Christians worldwide Sunday, March 24, 2024. It commemorates the Christian belief in the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when palm branches were strewn before him. It marks the start of Holy Week. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

What is Palm Sunday? Why is the donkey important to the story? And how is it celebrated worldwide?

By Luis Andres Henao - Associated Press

Pope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (Giuseppe Lami/Pool photo via AP)

Pope on pandemic’s second year: Weariness, economic hardship

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence waves as he boards Air Force Two at Grissom Air Reserve Base in Peru, Ind., following a visits to the General Motors/Ventec ventilator production facility in Kokomo, Ind., Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Mike Pence: Couldn’t be more proud of DOJ for standing with Virginia church

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Children run through the midway as workers slowly help fairgoers off a Ferris wheel at the 'Feria de Ramos' or Palm Fair, in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, April 11, 2019. Thousands of indigenous people mark Palm Sunday with an annual agricultural fair in the suburbs of one of Bolivia’s largest cities. The so-called Palm Sunday Fair, which began as a way to recreate the livestock markets of biblical times, is currently dominated by all sorts of informal trade and a midway. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Bolivia’s indigenous mark Palm Sunday with annual fair

Associated Press

Severe weather with possible tornadoes forecast for South

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People gather outside the St. George's Church after a suicide bombing, in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, Egypt, Sunday, April 9, 2017. Bombs exploded at two Coptic churches in the northern Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria as worshippers were celebrating Palm Sunday, killing over 40 people and wounding scores more in assaults claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

ISIS hit on Coptic Christians leaves Egypt in emergency

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Women cry during the funeral for those killed in a Palm Sunday church attack in Alexandria Egypt, at the Mar Amina church, Monday, April 10, 2017. Egyptian Christians were burying their dead on Monday, a day after Islamic State suicide bombers killed at least 45 people in coordinated attacks targeting Palm Sunday services in two cities. Women wailed as caskets marked with the word &quot;martyr&quot; were brought into the Mar Amina church in the coastal city of Alexandria, the footage broadcast on several Egyptian channels. (AP Photo/Samer Abdallah)

Attacks test Egypt’s president who orders state of emergency

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

A man sits on a bench outside a church after a bomb attack in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, Egypt, Sunday, April 9, 2017. The attack took place on Palm Sunday, the start of the Holy Week leading up to Easter, when the church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta was packed with worshippers. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

The Latest: US official condemns ‘barbaric attacks’ in Egypt

Associated Press

In this March 21, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

STEVE DEACE: Donald Trump: The Palm Sunday candidate

By Steve Deace

Pope on Palm Sunday (Photo by Bohumil Petrik/CNA)

This Sunday, where will the millions of palms come from?

By Adelaide Mena - Catholic News Agency

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

Rebecca Hagelin and her daughter, Kristin Carey.

REBECCA HAGELIN: Holy Week meditation on Jesus’ Crucifixion suffering, sacrifice

By Rebecca Hagelin and Kristin Carey

FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT. Nelson Ulloa performs with others members of Mariachi Norteño during the mariachi Mass at St Joseph's Catholic Church, 1505 Kane St, Sunday, April 13, 2014, in Houston. (AP Photo/ Houston Chronicle, Melissa Phillip)

Misa Panamericana a tradition at Houston church

By ALLAN TURNER - Associated Press