From CNN, Good Friday is observed around the world.
From The Daily Caller, some Filipino Catholics might be taking Good Friday just a bit too seriously.
From Vatican News, a Good Friday homily delivered in Saint Peter's Basilica.
From USA Today, what you need to know about Passover.
From The Conservative Woman, a discussion of the Good Friday hymn O Sacred Head Sore Wounded. (I'm familiar with the similar title O Sacred Head Surrounded.)
From the Miami New Times, a man in South Florida is arrested for allegedly leaving voicemail death threats against three Democrat federal legislators. (The article includes foul language, apparently from the suspect himself.)
From The American Conservative, when Notre Dame Cathedral is repaired, its appearance will probably be influenced more by the state than then church. (The article includes long quotes from the New York Magazine and Snakes And Ladders, but I don't think that the former has been correctly linked.)
From National Review, take time to enjoy a day away from the noise.
From FrontpageMag, the real inferno is not what happened at Notre Dame.
From Townhall, ignore the talking heads and read the Mueller report yourself.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) versus the Democrats. (To paraphrase another Bernie, the one who writes lyrics for Elton John, I could call the article "B-B-B-Bernie and the Dems".)
From the Washington Examiner, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) subpoenas the unredacted Mueller report.
From The Federalist, seven ways in which the Mueller report exposed fake news.
From American Thinker, how to defeat the "national popular vote" initiative.
From CNS News, claims of "real evidence" against President Trump have turned out to be male bovine waste.
From CBC News, Canada's policy on a "third gender" would affect the NEXUS card program, shared with the United States.
From Global News, a Canuck on the International Space Station gets some tasty treats from home.
From Mexico News Daily, thousands of trucks are stranded waiting to cross from Mexico into the U.S. (The wait is reportedly from the re-stationing of U.S. border agents to deal with the large number of illegal migrants trying to move northward. Perhaps there is a lesson for Mexico here. Stop letting the migrants pass through, and we gringos will then be able to put our agents back where they were. Meanwhile, I have 3 MND pages left this month.)
From the Express, the British Army will have fewer tanks than either Serbia or Cambodia.
From the Evening Standard, police have removed Extinction Rebellion protesters and their pink boat from London's Oxford Circus.
From the (U.K.) Independent, the Labour Party deletes their Passover Tweet because it included an incorrect image of bread.
From the (Irish) Independent, the criminals who stole two ATMs placed spikes in front of a garda station. (The Irish word garda, which means "police", seems to have been adopted into English. The plural is gardai.)
From the Irish Examiner, a digger and a tractor trailer were used to steal two ATMs in Kells, County Meath, Ireland.
From The Irish Post, a journalist is fatally shot during a riot in Derry, Northern Ireland.
From The Portugal News, with a strike by truckers coming to an end, Portugal's fuel supply will be restored.
From Morocco World News, Morocco's King Mohammed VI is reportedly expected to visit Saudi Arabia.
From the Malta Independent, Pope Francis washes the feet of prisoners.
From Malta Today, the Black Procession returns to Vittoriosa, Malta.
From Total Croatia News, journalists issue a manifesto ahead of the European Parliament elections.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albania's Minister of Defense meets her (acting) American counterpart.
From the Greek Reporter, Athens unveils a statue of Alexander the Great.
From Novinite, according to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Bulgaria has seized record amounts of heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and synthetic drugs.
From Russia Today, the Mueller report is "not worth taxpayers' money", says........Russia.
From Sputnik International, Ukrainian presidential candidates hold a debate before their runoff.
From The Moscow Times, the U.S. calls on other countries to deny their airspace to Russia planes traveling to Venezuela.
From Valasz Online, Good Friday "should hurt", says Hungarian cardinal Péter Erdő. (via the Hungary Journal)
From Daily News Hungary, Visegrád Group foreign ministers meet with their French counterpart.
From About Hungary, some Hungarian Easter traditions.
From Radio Praha, some Czech Easter traditions.
From Radio Poland, Jews who fought in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are honored.
From the NL Times, another hand grenade turns up, this one on an Amsterdam street.
From Dutch News, almost half of traditional Easter bonfires in the Netherlands have been called off.
From VRT NWS, Belgium's royal greenhouses will be opened to the public.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey detains two suspected spies, one of them possibly connected to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
From Turkish Minute, a court removes the ban on LGBTI activities imposed by Ankara's governor.
From Israel National News, the secret that accompanies Jews during Passover.
From The Times Of Israel, a small Samaritan community observes Passover by sacrificing a sheep. (The Samaritans, who are mentioned in the New Testament, are still around.)
From The Jerusalem Post, 14 Palestinians are injured while clashing with IDF troops.
From YNetNews, Christian pilgrims march in Jerusalem on Good Friday.
From Egypt Today, Egyptian expats vote on their country's constitutional amendments.
From Radio Farda, southern Iran is hit by a plague of locusts.
From Dawn, two teachers are arrested for allegedly inflicting corporal punishment in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (This city is also where Osama bin Laden was found.)
From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan reshuffles his cabinet.
From Pakistan Today, 59 Pakistanis living illegally in Saudi Arabia are deported.
From Khaama Press, in Afghanistan's Takhar province, three Taliban terrorists experience premature detonation.
From The Hans India, for Good Friday, a church in India holds a blood donation drive.
From Gatestone Institute, Spain decides that the word "Islamist" is hate speech.
From the New York Post, the boy thrown from a balcony at the Mall of America shows signs of recovery.
And from The Peedmont, a Richmond-area raccoon is disappointed at the garbage available to him.
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As a bonus, I want to include something which was published yesterday. According to PJ Media, a writer at The New York Times seems to find evidence that President Trump is a Nazi in an anti-Nazi song which was used in an anti-Nazi movie being played at the White House.
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