April marks Arab American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate Arab Americans’ contributions and to confront stereotypes and prejudices against Arabs. This Easter, I’m particularly mindful of the often-overlooked struggles faced by approximately 185,000 Palestinian Christians living in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Around 140,000 hold Israeli citizenship, 45,000 reside in the West Bank, and about 500 remain in Gaza.

Manhattan: Alongside many other honorable beings, Jesus Christ has always been a foremost revered hero, even deemed God by many or, as he is to me, a paramount role model; a wonderful mystic whose goodness would be exactly reflected by any Supreme Being one may hope exists. I might not cut Christ’s mustard perfectly — flawed enough, as I freely acknowledge being. Yet, I am also confident in the great gifts freely entrusted to me and you, including the universe’s highest calling for us to rise and shine for each...

Plea to give chocolates not rabbits at Easter A charity is urging people to give chocolates rather than rabbits for Easter after one was found abandoned on Dartmoor. Woodside Animal Welfare Trust said the rabbit was recently found by a dog walker on the moor. It said the animal, named Bluebell, was being cared for at its animal sanctuary in Devon where she was doing well despite her "traumatic experience". Assistant supervisor Claire Newcombe said rabbits could live up to 10 to 12 years and "before anyone considers getting a...

More than a hundred Miami Catholics walked the streets of Little River Friday afternoon for a longstanding Good Friday ritual: The procession of the cross to honor the biblical story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. Bishops, deacons, priests and parishioners from St. Mary’s Cathedral marched down Northwest Second Avenue stopping every so often to pray — “Our Father” and “Hail Mary” — and sing in English, Creole and Spanish to accommodate the multi-lingual crowd. As volunteers held statues of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, Miami residents looked on from their porches...

The days converge every three or four years; the last time was in 2017. But this year marks the 1,700th anniversary of a key date, which is providing fresh impetus to a long-running campaign to unify the Easter celebrations. In January, Pope Francis renewed his calls for a single Easter. Easter for all Christians is the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. But while most Western churches calculate the date using the Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, Eastern Orthodox churches use...