Easter Sunday

This will be an unusual Easter weekend for churchgoers as they look to celebrate online rather than in person. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern talks to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the holiday celebrated during the coronavirus pandemic.

Chicago native Harry Lennix from NBC’s “The Blacklist” is inviting a million people to stream his movie “Revival,” a retelling of the Bible’s Book of John set to gospel music, on Easter Sunday since people can’t go to church. NBC 5’s Lee Ann Trotter explains.

Easter Sunday is normally the most important date on Belgian chocolate makers’ calendar

Joel McHale revealed that he’s hosting a brand new episode of “Tiger King” that will debut on Netflix on Sunday, April 12.

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka held the first regular Sunday Mass since the Easter suicide bombings of churches and hotels killed more than 250 people. Military forces and police armed with assault rifles patrolled the streets leading to churches and stood guard outside the compounds. Everyone entering was required to produce identity cards and was body searched. Volunteers were...

A shooting at a Chabad synagogue near San Diego on Saturday, the last day of Passover, marks the latest tragedy in an increasingly dangerous trend of attacks on houses of worship during services where congregations are at their most vulnerable, NBC News reports. The attack on Chabad of Poway is the third of its kind in the last six weeks...

Catholic churches in Sri Lanka canceled all Sunday Masses until further notice over fears of more attacks from Islamic State-linked extremists, and the military said its soldiers in the eastern part of the country exchanged gunfire Friday night with suspects believed linked to the Easter bombings. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith told journalists that church officials had seen a leaked security document...

More than 350 people were killed in bombings of churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Here are some details on the victims

Sri Lanka on Thursday lowered the death toll from the Easter suicide bombings by nearly one-third, to 253, as authorities hunted urgently for a least five more suspects and braced for the possibility of more attacks in the coming days. In rolling back the number of dead from 359, a top Health Ministry official, Dr. Anil Jasinghe, said in a...

A stretch of Highway 101 in the South Bay turned into a boxing ring Easter Sunday as two men traded blows during a fistfight on the gridlocked thoroughfare.

Sri Lanka’s president gave the military sweeping police powers starting Tuesday in the wake of the Easter bombings that killed nearly 300 people, while officials disclosed that intelligence agencies had warned weeks ago of the possibility of an attack by the radical Muslim group blamed for the bloodshed. The suicide bombings struck three churches and three luxury hotels Sunday in...

Police in San Diego have identified the woman accused of walking into a school auditorium with a baby and a weapon and threatening churchgoers attending an Easter service there.

Nine bombings of churches, luxury hotels and other sites on Easter Sunday killed more than 200 people and wounded hundreds more in Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago. Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardena described the blasts as a terrorist attack by religious extremists, and police said 13 suspects...

Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 93rd birthday, which this year coincides with Easter Sunday. The queen is marking Easter by attending a service with other senior royals at St. George’s Chapel on the grounds of Windsor Castle, west of London. She was joined by Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, whose wife...

Now that the year is over, Chance the Rapper has revealed a secret he kept for nearly all of 2018.

A luxury jet thought to be carrying rapper Post Malone landed safely Tuesday afternoon, hours after blowing two tires during takeoff at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport. The Gulfstream IV carrying 16 passengers touched down safely at Stewart International Airport just before 4 p.m., nearly five hours after takeoff.

On Tuesdays, 18-month-old Joaquim Santos spends an hour sitting by himself in a corner of a special needs classroom in this small city in northeast Brazil, one of the country’s poorest regions and one hit hard by the Zika virus. Two harried teachers look on as other toddlers play around Joaquim, who has severe developmental delays after being born with...