Worldwide Christians Celebrate Easter Amid Violence & Mourning

Christians of different traditions around the world have observed Easter today, many amid violence and mourning.

More than 100 villagers on the tsunami-stricken Solomon Islands left their hillside camps to celebrate an Easter service at St. Luke's Anglican Church on the outskirts of Gizo.

They said prayers for those who died from last week's earthquake and tsunami that flattened several villages and killed more than two dozen people, and sang traditional hymns in a concrete church decorated with tropical flowers and palm leaves. The pastor, the Rev. John Pihavaka, urged his flock to remain calm and to share their remaining food and other provisions with those in greater need.

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