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• Defying ban, Egyptian Christians visit Jerusalem

  -- After the death of their spiritual leader, more than 2,000 Egyptian Copts have poured into the Holy Land for the Easter holidays, defying a ban he imposed on visiting Jerusalem and other Israeli-controlled areas.The influx -- after decades when Egyptian   Read more »

• Holy Humor Sunday lights up congregations

  faithful spent the day after Easter dancing, picnicking, singing and playing practical jokes to try to keep alive the joy of Easter, said the Rev. Karl Kraft, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Glassboro, N.J., and a leading Holy Humor Sunday   Read more »

• Bright sign: LI sales tax collection rises

  can't be overly optimistic," he said, explaining that increased revenues could be a result of warmer winter weather or because Easter and Passover "fell together" this year.But Pearl Kamer, chief economist at the Long Island Association, said the reported   Read more »

• LIers hope for justice in Trayvon Martin murder case

  Church in Hempstead . "But we are not victorious yet."Easely said the case is so significant that he preached a sermon about it on Easter Sunday, speaking of dangers facing young people. He was one of many local clergy, activists and ordinary people who attended   Read more »

• Dozens killed in Nigeria car bombing

  Nigeria -- A suicide car bomber missed nearby churches holding Easter services Sunday, but killed 38 people in a massive blast that rattled a city long at the center of religious, ethnic and political violence in the nation.The blast in Kaduna left charred   Read more »

Around the web

• Explora's Jesus Parilla

  man in charge of promoting vacations of a lifetime with the breathtaking Explora hotels located in Patagonia, Atacama and Easter Island, hardly took a holiday before starting on the job. "I was working in the airline catering and logistics industry," Parilla 5/30/12 from Today Online Read more »

• How Peter Carl Fabergé turned Easter eggs into precious art

  a diamond and gold crown. The royal family was so impressed that they ordered a new egg – often multiple eggs – almost every Easter after that. They weren't the only customers. Faberge eggs became famous and the pieces grew more elaborate with time. Some contain   from Christian Science Monitor Read more »

• IMAGES: Amazing 'eggs' worth over millions of dollars

  the Azova Egg) is a jewelled Easter egg made in 1891 for Tsar Alexander III of Russia. It was presented by Alexander III as an Easter gift to his wife, the Czarina Maria Feodorovna. It is currently held in the Kremlin Armoury Museum in Moscow, and it is one 5/30/12 from Rediff Read more »

• Politics no answer for Anglican malaise

  his Easter Media statement Anglican Archbishop Philip Freier was widely criticized for an unsophisticated attack on the Australian Banking System. Certainly, over the last five years or so, many observers have noticed an increasing tendency by Anglicans to   from The Age Read more »

• Bringing Home the Gospel: How Families Can Benefit From the Daily Mass Readings

  40 days in the desert as we prepare for the somberness of Holy Week and the joy of Easter. Catholics tend to do Lent better than Easter, for many too often reduce Easter to a one-day event instead of an especially joyous octave and a 50-day season of celebration.   from National Catholic Register Read more »