Internally displaced Catholics in northeast India marked Good Friday with a public enactment of the Way of the Cross, drawing attention to both their faith and resilience amid ongoing challenges in the region.
Catholic communities in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, particularly in coastal regions, marked Good Friday with a distinctive devotional practice, the symbolic funeral service of Jesus Christ.
As Christians around the world marked Good Friday in solemn remembrance of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Malaysian prelate Archbishop Simon Poh urged the faithful to become instruments of forgiveness, healing, and peace in a world marked by conflict and division.
The cross does not offer easy comfort. But it does offer company, the company of someone who looked at the full cost of love and chose it anyway, not in a single heroic moment, but across years of small, consistent, quietly radical choices.
A solemn Good Friday tradition will return on April 3 as the newly elevated Diocese of Calapan in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, stages “Siete Palabras” a dramatic presentation of the Seven Last Words of Jesus, in two locations in the city, inviting the faithful to reflect more deeply on the passion and death of Christ.
