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Easter

A decorated street carpet known as an alfombra created for Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala.

Guatemalans commemorate Holy Week with colorful street carpets

Lifestyle & Belief

During Holy Week in Guatemala, many people participate in the tradition of creating elaborate alfombra, or colorful flower carpets made out of sawdust on the streets for processions to pass over.

A church sanctuary is shown with empty rows of pews and the photos of people's faces taped to the back rest.

Easter season goes virtual as coronavirus locks out tradition

COVID-19
Three people at a window are dropping a bright red jug down onto the street below. Water has fallen out the top and the pot falls to the ground.

This Greek island celebrates Easter by throwing pots of water out of windows

Lifestyle
Colorful stained-glass windows depicting the resurrection of Jesus Christ at Sherborne Abbey in Dorset, England.

Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts about the holiday

Religion

The Living on Earth Almanac

The World

Catholic Earth Sprituality

– Spring is the season when life mysteriously remerges out of the cold winter soil. For Christians around the world, spring also means Easter: the celebration of Jesus’ ressurection. A growing number of Roman Catholics are making conscious connections between these two events–linking their faith and their concern for the earth. But as Richard Schiffman […]

The World

On Good Friday, Catholics reflect on forgiveness, accountability and blame

Global Politics

This Easter Sunday Christians worldwide will celebrate Christ’s resurrection. The Catholic Church may very well be hoping for a minor healing miracle of its own as a decades-old sex abuse scandal continues to plague church leaders in the U.S. and abroad.

The World

What’s the word, Sunday pundits?

Arts, Culture & Media

The Takeaway has started scanning transcripts from the Sunday talk shows to find the most commonly used, issue-related word.
Word of the week: Iraq

The World

Monday puzzler: guess the word of the Sunday talk shows

Arts, Culture & Media

What was the word of the Sunday talk shows?
Q. Listen to these excerpts from the Sunday talk shows. Can you guess the missing words?