The preacher’s weekly challenge—What story shall I tell?—is perhaps less challenging in Holy Week than at any other time except Christmas. The Passion story provides characters, plot, dynamics, and ...

From lavish productions to gory barrio dramas, reenactments of the crucifixion and the Via Crucis are doggedly making their way back into the spotlight. A Holy Week Passion Play takes place at San ...

As the Church celebrates Holy Week and recalls in a special way the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Catholics around the world turn to artistic depictions of these events in order ...

Jews who have seen the Oberammergau Passion Play, which depicts Jesus’ last days and historically has inspired anti-Semitic violence, say this year’s version is not as bad as in decades past, but it’s ...

(RNS) — For the past three decades, the most heinous anti-Jewish excesses of the world's most famous Passion play have been slowly eliminated, but more work needs to be done. (RNS) — The Oberammergau ...

(RNS) — Passover and Easter once again coincide this year. The first seder (Passover meal) of the eight-day Jewish festival is on March 30, and Easter falls two days later. During this holiday season, ...

Here in Oberammergau, a pretty village in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, I’m watching one of the most disturbing spectacles I’ve seen in 50 years of theatregoing. On the stage of this outdoor ...