Easter services and Holy Week pilgrims around world
Christians worldwide marked Easter with services in Jerusalem at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Garden Tomb outside the walls. The Latin Patriarch celebrated a sunrise Mass as thousands walked the Via Dolorosa. In Nazareth nearly 20,000 Christian Arabs mourned with nearby villagers amid a fatal feud. Pope John Paul II led a candlelit midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, blessing the new fire and presiding over a rite that included 12,000 worshippers and 20 baptisms and First Communions.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Mount of Olives
Old City
Virginia Barger
New York City
Via Dolorosa
Golgotha
Helena
Egypt
Galilee
Nazareth
Jesus
Kfar Yassif
John Paul II
St. Peter’s Square
St. Peter’s Basilica
John Paul
Christ
Christendom
St. Peter’s
Rome
Potomac yacht auction set for Oakland sale
Former presidential yacht Potomac tied to Franklin D Roosevelt auctioned Tuesday with starting bid at 20000 dollars. It was seized September 11 in a marijuana case and sank March 18, then towed to Pacific Dry Dock and Repair Co for salvage before sale “as is and where it is” at Jack London Square.
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San Francisco
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Brokaw
U.S. Customs Service District
Jack London Square
Oakland
Pacific Dry Dock and Repair Co
San Francisco Bay
Cloudy Southern Illinois Forecast With 80 Percent Rain Chance
The National Weather Service predicts cloudy conditions across Southern Illinois with an 80 percent chance of rain. Today’s high is expected to reach the low to mid 70s.
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Illinois
National Weather Service
Passover Observed Amid Sad Reflections Over Soviet Jews
Israelis mark Passover with tradition and a somber note as Soviet Jewish dissidents face imprisonment for emigration. Readers in Jerusalem observe a freedom seder while Sinai families await possible repatriation by 1982 under peace terms. Shlomo Goren sells leavened products to a Druse officer, and Ovadiah Yosef urges Jews to settle in Israel. Jimmy Doolittle attends a Columbus reunion with a B 52 depiction.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Jerusalem
Egypt
Sinai Desert
Sinai
Matzo
Shlomo Goren
Ovadiah Yosef
Cairo
Alexandria
Paving Road to Bald Knob Promises New Career Plan
Marion truck driver Willis Butch Russell proposes selling decals to fund four mile Bald Knob Cross road paving. He envisions churches sharing profits and prizes funded from proceeds, with Cross foundation weighing whether to back the plan amid concerns over religious funding and route costs.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Cathy A. Monroe
Southern Illinois
Marion
Bald Knob Cross
Willis
Butch’’ Russell
Russell
Bald Knob
Newbold
Foundation
the Cross Foundation
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Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
New York
David Leemon
Southern Illinoisan
ED Greer
Ann Landers
Ancient
Jimmy Doolittle
Tokyo
Columbus
Ohio
Winchester
McCormick
James Rea
Christopher
The
Cross
Union County
Cross Foundation
George A. Williams
Williamson County Ministerial Alliance
William Leckrone
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