Limited Good Friday ceremony held at Holy Sepulchre as Israel bans worshippers

Limited Good Friday ceremony held at Holy Sepulchre as Israel bans worshippers Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 04/03/2026 - 12:10 Israel continues to prevent Christians and Muslims from accessing Jerusalem’s holy sites for more than a month Christian pilgrims pray in front of the closed door of Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem on 3 April 2026 (Marco Longari/AFP) Off The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem led a scaled-down Good Friday ceremony at Calvary in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, amid Is