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Dutch flowers decorate St. Peter’s Square for Easter Sunday Mass 2019. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

Dutch flowers adorn St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday. Here’s how the 37-year tradition was saved in 2022.

According to Stephen de Silva, St. Albans Cathedral’s longest-serving guide of more than 45 years, religious brothers who lived in the cathedral’s abbey in the 14th century invented the original hot cross bun for both charitable and catechetical reasons. / Credit: Photo courtesy of St. Alban's Cathedral

Rome Newsroom, Apr 18, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

The origins of the hot cross bun traditionally made with currants, spices, flour, and eggs are closely linked to a cathedral dedicated to St. Alban.

The Mystery of the Brotherhood of San Benito processes through the surroundings of the cathedral of Seville on Holy Tuesday, April 15, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Joaquín Carmona

Seville, Spain, Apr 17, 2025 / 13:01 pm (CNA).

The Holy Week processions in the Andalusian capital are one of Spain’s most iconic traditions, and this year was no exception.

Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo and her husband, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. / Credit: Inti Ocon/AFP via Getty Images

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 15, 2025 / 15:28 pm (CNA).

According to Confidencial newspaper, the dictatorship is supposedly deploying 14,000 police officers to prevent processions during Holy Week in Nicaragua.

The state capitol building of Yucatán, Mexico. / Credit: J. Magno, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Puebla, Mexico, Apr 11, 2025 / 15:20 pm (CNA).

Mexico’s Yucatán state Congress has approved the decriminalization of abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation.

Emergency Missions volunteers at the Dos de Mayo National Hospital in Lima, Peru. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Fabrizio Caciano

Lima Newsroom, Apr 10, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

In one of the most poverty-stricken areas of Lima, Peru, where hopelessness has long prevailed, a man who once rejected the Church now leads a revolution of solidarity.

Archbishop Francisco Ozoria Acosta of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdiocese of Santo Domingo

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 9, 2025 / 16:41 pm (CNA).

Archbishop Francisco Ozoria Acosta of Santo Domingo expressed his profound sorrow and solidarity in response to the tragedy that occurred at the Jet Set nightclub.

Mass celebrated by Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra on his 100th birthday. / Credit: Diocesan Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels

Puebla, Mexico, Apr 9, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

Mexican Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra is the world’s oldest bishop and is one of only four surviving bishops who participated in the Second Vatican Council.

Nuns of the Little Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus in Haiti. / Credit: Courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 4, 2025 / 17:24 pm (CNA).

Sisters Evanette Onezaire and Jeanne Voltaire, members of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, were murdered in Haiti by armed gangs.

Mural of Archbishop Oscar Romero, / Credit: Douglas Radamez Barahona, Giovani Ascencio Ardón and Raul Lemus- Grupo Cinteupiltzin CENAR El Salvador (CC BY-SA 3.0).

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 29, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

The apostolic nunciature in El Salvador issued a correction for irregularities during a Mass marking the 45th anniversary of the assassination of St. Oscar Romero.