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President Donald Trump, who in his wheeling and dealing developer years in New York was never described as a religious man, posted a particularly reverent post to the nation for Easter Sunday.

Pope Francis met briefly in his hotel Sunday with U.S. Vice President JD Vance who is spending Easter in Rome alongside his family.

A convalescing Pope Francis made a surprise appearance for Easter Sunday blessings at the Vatican’s St Peter’s Square, defying the serious illness which has left him struggling over the past few months.

During an appearance on Newsmax TV on Saturday, evangelist Franklin Graham shared his thoughts on the events that led up to Christ’s crucifixion and their significance in the Easter story.

First Lady Melania Trump on Friday revealed the festivities scheduled for Monday’s Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

Vice President JD Vance met with Vatican officials during his trip to Italy amid tensions regarding President Trump’s deportation of illegals.

An Italian appeals court Friday upheld life sentences for a Pakistani couple convicted of murdering their 18-year-old daughter in a so-called honor killing after she refused an arranged marriage. The case shocked many Italians and became a symbol of the brutal mistreatment of immigrant women who rebel against inflexible family rules.

Catholics across Latin America are observing this year’s Good Friday by participating in numerous processions and activities, honoring their respective countries’ Catholic traditions, some of which stand out as unique among themselves.

Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau state, Nigeria, urged local “traditional rulers” to organize vigilante militias to protect Christians after a recent string of attacks, presumed to have been committed by ethnic Fulani jihadists, killed dozens and displaced thousands.

Christians around the world today observe Good Friday, the anniversary of the day Jesus Christ was crucified on a hill called Golgotha outside the walls of Jerusalem over 2,000 years ago by Roman soldiers.

Many conservatives recognized Good Friday — the day believers remember the sacrificial death of God’s son Jesus to reconcile humanity to Himself — reminding everyone that Sunday, Resurrection Day, is right around the corner.

First Lady Melania Trump wished Americans a Good Friday filled with “hope and faith,” making the remark on X Friday morning.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his family were at the Vatican for Good Friday services to celebrate Easter. The convalescing pope did not attend.

The small town of San Pedro Cutud in the Philippines continued its annual tradition of staging real crucifixions to mark Good Friday, honoring its most prolific participant, carpenter Ruben Enaje, with the bloody ritual for a 36th time.

Israel welcomed newly-confirmed U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee on Friday with a ceremony at the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, in the midst of religious services for the Passover holiday.

A new report suggests that the internet, reverence of the Holy Mass, and other factors have been driving young Americans toward Catholicism. 

A recent study conducted by Venezuela-based research firm Delphos found that 97 percent of Venezuelans believe in God and a majority pray regularly despite more than two decades of attacks against the Venezuelan Church by the socialist Maduro regime, the outlet Runrunes reported on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump attended an Easter prayer service and dinner on Wednesday night after recognizing the beginning of Holy Week on Monday.

Ambassador Mike Huckabee stated he will place a handwritten prayer from President Donald Trump in Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Friday, calling the act a meaningful start to his diplomatic mission in Israel.

Rosario Murillo, wife of communist dictator Daniel Ortega and “co-president” of Nicaragua, praised the “heroism of Jesus Christ” on Tuesday in an address ignoring the fact that her regime has banned Holy Week processions in the country.

South African police on Tuesday rescued American pastor Josh Sullivan from the gang of armed men who kidnapped him last week.

ATHENS, Greece — The archbishop of the Church of Greece, Ieronymos II of Athens, told Breitbart News exclusively he is excited President Donald Trump won the election last year and believes Trump is a force for good in the world.

Hillsdale College, a conservative institution in Michigan that accepts no federal funding, has been trolling Harvard University as it tries to fight the Trump administration over policy changes tied to federal grants.

Venezuela’s socialist regime on Sunday debuted the latest episode of Súper Bigote (“Super Mustache”), dictator Nicolás Maduro’s superhero alter ego, inviting Venezuelans to celebrate Holy Week by “building socialism” with “God’s blessing.”

The communist regime of Cuba banned Christians in Havana from celebrating the traditional Solemn Stations of the Cross on Sunday, Cuban outlets reported.

The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University on Monday after the elite university announced it would not comply with demands for reforms to stop antisemitism and other forms of discrimination.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney celebrated the Sikh holiday of Vaisakhi in an event in Ottawa for which he donned a turban.

Angel Studios released its animated Biblical film King of Kings into 3,200 theaters and not only came in second but broke a box office record.

Christian Evangelist Franklin Graham praised the Trump administration for devoting the week to recognizing the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, contrasting that with what occurred last year as former President Joe Biden made sure to highlight the “Transgender Day of Visibility,” which fell on Easter.

The Trump White House is planning “extraordinary” celebrations for Holy Week, packed full with events to honor the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus.

Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for the 1990s band Green Day, changed the lyrics for their 2004 tune “Jesus of Suburbia” at Coachella and added new lyrics attacking Israel and supporting Palestinians.

Details of a massacre of dozens of Christians in the restive Middle Belt of Nigeria, believed to have occurred at the hands of genocidal Fulani jihadists, began surfacing over the weekend as the nation marks the holiest season in Christianity and the anniversary of one of the most abhorrent acts of Islamic terrorism in the nation’s modern history.

President Donald Trump recognized the start of Holy Week and Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection, noting “History was forever changed” in the moment of Jesus Christ’s Resurrection.

The kidnapping epidemic that has plagued South Africa this decade may have hit a new criminal low when an American pastor was nabbed at gunpoint while he was preaching at a Baptist church in Motherwell, outside the coastal city of Gqeberha.

NEW YORK (AP) — After just two weeks in theaters, “A Minecraft Movie” is already the highest grossing Hollywood release of 2025.

A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Good Palm Sunday, a good Holy Week,” in yet another reassuring public sign of his recovery from a life-threatening battle with double pneumonia.