Every year, people throughout the world celebrate Easter, but Easter is incomplete without Good Friday — a day considered sacred by millions of Americans. On Good Friday, Christians remember the ...

— 1 John 3:16 (NIV). Some years back, often on a Friday afternoon, I enjoyed going to the mall for a walk. It gave me a chance to stretch my legs with some much-needed exercise and clear my head with ...

Good Friday is here, but what does the holy holiday mean and is it a federally celebrated holiday? The Christian holiday arrives three days before Easter every year and kicks off one of the most ...

Christians around the world observe Good Friday two days before Easter, but what is it, and why do they commemorate the holy day? The holiday is part of Holy Week, which leads up to Easter Sunday.

Christians worldwide will observe Good Friday, one of the religion's most somber days of the year, a couple days before Easter celebrations commence. The holy day, one that commemorates Jesus Christ's ...

The day is observed by Christians around the world as part of Holy Week, and comes two days before Easter Sunday. "Good Friday has been, for centuries now, the heart of the Christian message because ...

Amid the celebratory alleluias of Easter, it strikes me Christ’s Good Friday plaintive plea for forgiveness is especially pertinent this Easter Sunday — with innocent blood staining the streets of ...

Two thousand years ago, humanity failed. A representative of the most powerful nation in the world folded to popular pressure and executed a religious teacher without blame. That man’s own people had ...

With Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent behind us, Easter Sunday is right around the corner – preceded by another Christian holy day: Good Friday. Following the Lent season, when some indulge in ...

Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is observed two days before Easter Sunday, falling on April 18, 2025. Commemorations vary across Christian denominations, often involving ...

This editorial originally appeared on April 14, 2017 Today is Good Friday, the day Christians recognize as the day Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was nailed to the cross and died. Sunday, Christians ...

What does Good Friday, definitively a religious holiday, have to do with the stock market? With Good Friday not being an official federal holiday in the United States, it's a reasonable question to ...