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Jerusalem's Palm Sunday procession scaled back due to virus

by Associated Press
| April 5, 2020 7:27 AM

JERUSALEM (AP) — A small group of Franciscan monks and Roman Catholic faithful took to the streets of Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter in the Old City Sunday 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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