is your neighborhood reporter for North Beach, Downtown Corpus Christi and the Bay Area. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Today, many families are gathering to celebrate the Easter holiday. To some, it ...

OBERAMMERGAU, Germany (AP) — Almost 400 years ago, the Catholic residents of a small Bavarian village vowed to perform a play of “the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ” every ...

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 ...

A small German town has been performing a Passion Play every decade since the 17th century. Oberammergau, with its 5,000 inhabitants, began performances after being hit by the bubonic plague in 1633, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO – People lined the streets of downtown San Antonio for the Good Friday tradition that recreates the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ — the Passion Play. The San Antonio Passion Play ...