ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThe children from riverside communities traveled for hours by boat just to meet Bacuri at the Ferreira Penna Scientific Base of the Emilio Goeldi Museum, Brazil’s oldest research institute in the Amazon. Despite their endangered status, manatees are still hunted and their meat illegally sold, and they are increasingly threatened by
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióRev. Tony Chalhoub, center, of the Maronite Church of St. George kisses a foot during the Washing of the Feet ceremony in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióA young woman portraying a biblical figure reacts emotionally during a Good Friday reenactment of the crucifixion in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióA young woman portraying a biblical figure reacts emotionally during a Good Friday reenactment of the crucifixion in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióOn Thursday, in a ritual symbolizing humility, Chalhoub washed the feet of a dozen boys at the church.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThe ritual recalls the foot-washing Jesus performed on his 12 apostles at their Last Supper together before he would be taken away to be crucified.
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióChalhoub said he doesn’t participate in the Friday reenactment, which he said has become entrenched in Quraye. On social media, he added, it often draws mixed reactions, with some criticizing aspects of it as “backward.”ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióCharbel Joseph Antoun, 37, portraying Jesus, falls to the ground during a Good Friday reenactment of the crucifixion in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióCharbel Joseph Antoun, 37, portraying Jesus, falls to the ground during a Good Friday reenactment of the crucifixion in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióAntoun said scenes like the hoisting of the cross and the flogging are done in a calculated and “professional” manner. “We do this out of a good heart,” he said.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióDennis Dostey Dorve, a driver and a part-time fisherman, stands on a fallen tree next to his late father’s room, collapsed by the sea in the family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThe sea began to claim houses in Agavedzi about a dozen years ago, said Dennis Dostey Dorve, whose fisherman father built a home that collapsed in 2016 while Dorve was inside.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendició“The room he had given me is gone, as is the room he occupied before he passed away,” said Dorve. “When I was young, the distance from where I stand now to the shore was considerable.”
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióDennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióDennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)