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Italy witnessed a rare and highly symbolic Good Friday ceremony on 3 April as Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum, the first time in decades that a pope has performed the full rite in person.

If approved, the vice president would take over in the event of the president's death, resignation or incapacity with no obligation to hold elections

Both Russia and Egypt support “an immediate cessation of hostilities and a return to the political and diplomatic process,” Lavrov said after the talks

Thousands of people joined a march for peace on Good Friday in South Sudan, where intensifying fighting between government and opposition forces is stoking fears of a return to all-out civil war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel will continue to “crush Iran.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel will continue to “crush Iran.”

Workers of Seplat Energy have commenced an indefinite strike over unresolved welfare issues and stalled negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. The post Seplat workers begin indefinite strike over welfare concerns appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has blasted new US sanctions on his country’s army, calling them “insults thrown in the face” of Rwanda.

Russian missile and drone strikes hit Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, killing one and injuring 10, as dozens of homes and public buildings were destroyed.

Nigeria marked Good Friday with hundreds of Catholic faithful marching through Lagos in a public reenactment of the Stations of the Cross, linking Christ’s suffering to the country’s economic pain.