(RNS) — For the past three decades, the most heinous anti-Jewish excesses of the world's most famous Passion play have been slowly eliminated, but more work needs to be done. (RNS) — The Oberammergau ...

Numerous river cruise lines are offering sailings that include attending the once-every-decade Passion Play performance in Oberammergau, Germany, in 2020. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Oberammergau ...

Once a decade, ever since 1634, German village Oberammergau has staged a remarkable, epic play about Jesus Christ involving thousands of residents. Laura Studarus gets a front-row view. Visiting ...

Jesus, played by Frederik Mayet, encounters his mother in a scene in the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany, which is running from May 14 to Oct. 2. This is the second time Mayet will portray Jesus ...

(RNS) — Passion plays originated in the Middle Ages in Christian Europe as a way to celebrate and teach the story of the last days of Jesus’ life and from the beginning embodied the anti-Judaism ...

Jews who have seen the Oberammergau Passion Play, which depicts Jesus’ last days and historically has inspired anti-Semitic violence, say this year’s version is not as bad as in decades past, but it’s ...

Jesus is late. No one has seen him this morning. The priest in a white cassock by the door to St Anne's Church in the Old City in Jerusalem shrugs as though he wonders where Jesus is, too. The early ...