Holy Week in the Philippines held in towns throughout the provinces of Pampanga, Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna, and in the Ilocandia, as well as in Makati in Metro Manila. Except in the Bulakenyo towns of Baliuag and Pulilan, the Passion tableaux are excluded from the Good Friday afternoon procession. Maundy Thursday (Huwebes Santo) is the first statutory public holiday of the week, and marks the beginning of the Paschal Triduum. Prior to the Second Vatican Council, the Procession of the Passion of Christ was held on Maundy Thursday. This was later transferred to Holy Wednesday for Latin Rite Catholics, with the Philippine Independent Church (which separated
After Saturday comes Sunday Foundation for Peace, a Christian diaspora association which appealed to Israel to hit Hezbollah hard, and open Ben Gurion Airport to the Lebanese diaspora. Thousands of Lebanese, it proclaimed, were eager to join the IDF to help liberate their homeland from Islamic fundamentalism, Ratzlav-Katz explained this press release as a reflection of an experience of: Lebanese Muslim militiamen active against Israel in the 1980s, as they kept up attacks on Lebanese Christians, (who) encapsulated their vision for the Middle East in a catchy phrase, "After Saturday comes Sunday." It is sometimes interpreted as a metonymy of the First they came