Jerusalem's Palm Sunday march scaled back

By Moshe Edri
Updated April 6 2020 - 2:23am, first published 2:20am
Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa held a small service at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa held a small service at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

A small group of Franciscan monks and Roman Catholic faithful have taken to the streets of Jerusalem's Christian Quarter in the Old City to distribute olive branches after the traditional Palm Sunday procession was cancelled due to restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

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