Compared to , there is a increase of registrations in the pilgrimages of Christians organized from Egypt to Jerusalem. Furthermore, it is specified that all Christian pilgrims from Egypt will stay in accommodation facilities run by Palestinians, both in East Jerusalem and in Bethlehem.
During the years when the Arab-Israeli conflict radicalized, Coptic Patriarch Shenouda III forbade the faithful of his Church to make pilgrimages in the Jewish state and had not changed his position even after the normalization of relations between Egypt and Israel desired by President Sadat.
This prohibition was never formally revoked, but already in the journey made in the Holy Land by ninety Coptic Christians on the occasion of Holy Week had given way to several observers to point out the irrelevance of the anti-pilgrimage provision, within the existing relations between the two neighboring nations.
What further promoted the Copts pilgrimages to the Holy Land was certainly the journey made in late November in Jerusalem by Patriarch Tawadros II, during the funeral of Archbishop Abraham, head of the local Orthodox Coptic community. The Patriarch's trip, although presented by the Coptic Orthodox Church as "an exception", was definitely seen by Egyptian Copts as an eloquent sign that the new Patriarch has no intention to defend punitive prohibitions for the spiritual life of the faithful.
The following are the dates of the Gregorian calendar for Holy Week, according to the tradition of the Orthodox Catholic Church, begins with the Saturday of the resurrection of Lazarus.
The specific dates on the Gregorian calendar are listed below for Palm Sunday falls on March 28, Holy Monday falls on March 29, Holy Tuesday falls on March 30, Holy Wednesday falls on March 31, Holy Thursday falls on April 1, Holy Friday falls on April 2, Holy Saturday falls on April 3, Lazarus Saturday falls on April 24, Palm Sunday falls on April 25, Holy Monday falls on April 26, Holy Tuesday falls on April 27, Holy Wednesday falls on April 28,
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