Palm Sunday, the first celebration observed during Holy Week, honors Jesus Christ's last days on earth. Here's what to know about it.

However, the annual harvesting of palm branches, combined with increasing land conversion for commercial use, is putting pressure on palm populations throughout the country."Nowadays, palm trees ...

It’s Palm Sunday, the beginning of the Christian Holy Week, leading up to the celebration of Easter next Sunday, April 20. Millions of Christians worldwide carry palm leaves in processions today ...

Palm Sunday has the stuff that makes children's church programs so fun: palm branches, singing and shouting, a donkey and more. Yet these things also carry the weight of symbolic significance for ...

To mark the day, Christians recreate Jesus’ procession, often starting outside churches and winding down sidewalks and city streets waving palm branches. Celebrations like this often miss an ...

leading up to his crucifixion, which Christians observe on Good Friday, followed by his resurrection, celebrated on Easter Sunday. The faithful emerged from St. Peter’s Square carrying blessed palm ...

Parishioners at St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton held a palm branch in their hand as a reference to the bible, where people welcomed Jesus by laying down their cloaks and waving palm branches.

As they walked through the streets of Qaraqosh, participants sang Palm Sunday hymns in both Arabic and Syriac and waved olive branches. Thousands celebrate the beginning of Holy Week on April 13 ...