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NEWS ABOUT: Good Friday

Good Friday stories: 5 news summaries

Woman Killed After Priest's Car Plows Into Churchgoers

Elderly woman dies, 4 others injured in Good Friday accident

Apr 11, 09 5:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - A woman was killed and four were injured when a priest lost control of his car and drove into Good Friday churchgoers in eastern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Witnesses said the priest, 79, had finished assisting with services at St. Maurice Catholic Church and was driving around to the... More »

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car accident • Pennsylvania • church • priest • Good Friday

 NYC Church Twitters 
 Good Friday Ritual 

Trinity Wall Street brings Good Friday online

Apr 10, 09 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A New York church is using Twitter to bring observance of Good Friday into the social-networking age, CNET reports. Trinity Wall Street is posting the Passion, 140-character piece by 140-character piece, from a set of accounts representing the characters in the story. The church already encourages the use of video... More »

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social networking • Christ • podcast • podcasts • Jesus Christ • Good Friday • Twitter • microblogging • Trinity Wall Street

(Newser) - Italy today held a mass state funeral for 205 of the people killed in the Abruzzo earthquake and observed a national day of morning, the BBC reports. Dozens of coffins and thousands of people gathered at the open-air service at a police training base outside the damaged city of L’... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Italy • funeral • earthquake • Good Friday

 Why Close the Markets Today? 

Observing Good Friday one reason; superstition about 1907 panic another

Mar 21, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Big Board is closed today—but the reason is open to some debate, Bloomberg reports. The last time the markets opened on Good Friday was 101 years ago, when they saw one of two huge crashes that made up the Panic of 1907. Fear of repeating that catastrophe may... More »

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New York Stock Exchange • Dow Jones • financial markets • Nasdaq • superstition • S&P 500 • Good Friday • Panic of 1907

 World's Holy Days Converge 

Believers of almost all stripes have something to celebrate today

Mar 21, 08 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - This Good Friday is not simply the most solemn day in the Christian calendar but a convergence of movable feasts that doesn't occur more than once in a century. March 21 is also the first day of the Jewish festival of Purim and the celebration of the birth of the... More »

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Islam • Christianity • religion • Judaism • Buddhism • Holy Days • Good Friday • Purim • Eid • Narouz • Small Holi • Magha Puja • Persian New Year • Hindus

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