Religious festivals converge on one day

YESTERDAY, more than a billion Christians around the world marked the gravest observance on their calendar, Good Friday, the day Jesus died on the cross.

Religious festivals converge on one day

This will be followed by Easter Sunday tomorrow, which will mark his resurrection.

But unlike some holy days — say, Christmas, which some non-Christians observe informally — on this particular Friday, March 21, it seemed almost no believer of any sort was left without his or her own holiday. In what is statistically, at least, a once-in-a-millennium combination, the following occurred yesterday:

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