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Christian leaders in Nigeria are calling on the people of God in the country to foster harmony and understanding, drawing inspiration from the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
Here is a list of the most popular questions about Palm Sunday and their answers.
The small northern Iraqi city of Qaraqosh, with a population of 60,000, 99 percent of whom are Catholic, woke up nine years ago on the morning of Wednesday, 6 August 2014, to the sound of indiscriminate mortar shells that fell on houses, killing three: 32-year-old Inaam Ishua Boulis, five-year-old David Adeeb Elias Shmeis, and nine-year-old Milad Mazen Elias Shmeis.
An estimated 25,000 Iraqi Christians gathered for a joyous Palm Sunday reunion after years of war and displacement.
Pope Francis urged Catholics to focus on the cross during Holy Week as he celebrated Mass on Palm Sunday.
At the Angelus, Pope Francis prayed for Indonesian Catholics injured in a bombing as they left a Palm Sunday Mass.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo condemned a bomb attack at a Catholic cathedral after a Palm Sunday Mass that killed two suspects and wounded at least 20 people.
With the arrival of Palm Sunday, Catholics across the globe will soon be handed spiky leaves. Kids will poke each other with them. But it's safe to say most won't know where they came from.
On Palm Sunday, Pope Francis offered Mass in a nearly empty St. Peter’s Basilica and urged Catholics quarantined at home to remember "what really matters" in life: loving God and serving others.