Half a million young people are expected to pour into Rome next week for the biggest event of the 2025 Holy Year.

Holy Week observances began in Jerusalem in the earliest days of the Church, when devout people traveled to Jerusalem at Passover to reenact the events of the week leading up to the Resurrection.

According to authorities, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic graffiti was found last week on a statue of the Virgin Mary, a ...