Pictures and movies of Good Friday celebrations in Cap-Haïtien, Fort-Liberté, Gonaïves and Port-au-Prince. The pictures depict Good Friday processions in Cap-Haïtien and Fort-Liberté, a mass in Port-au-Prince and a rara showdown in Gonaïves.
CAP-HAÏTIEN — When worship songs began enjoying from the audio system in the course of the Good Friday March, most of the 1000’s of worshippers on Letter A in Cap-Haïtien shut their eyes. It was their option to simply connect with arguably essentially the most pivotal and tragic second in Christianity: the loss of life of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Some squeezed their faces with emotional sorrow as their lips moved in inaudible prayers, others slowly waved their arms within the air. In the meantime, different worshippers slowly sang alongside. The worshippers had been tightly pressed collectively within the streets and most of them wore white, forming a white sea underneath the cloudy sky.
The worshipers marched and stopped on the completely different stations of the procession to wish and adore God. A few of them carried umbrellas because it drizzled for a brief time frame in the course of the march. Regardless of the rain, the march had a fantastic turnout in Cap-Haïtien, just like different areas in Haiti.
As an illustration, in Fort-Liberté, a number of worshippers additionally marched within the streets within the Good Friday Procession. Over in Gonaïves, a number of rara bands animated the streets with the sound of their music as a part of a Good Friday custom. Dancers and attendees danced to the rhythm of the bands’ horns and drums.
In Port-au-Prince, the place gangs have taken management of a big a part of Haiti’s capital, Good Friday practically went unnoticed. The Catholic Church didn’t maintain a procession, nor did rara bands march within the streets because of the dreadful gang violence disaster there. However conventional kite-flying actions could possibly be seen throughout Delmas, in Ti Plas Kazo, Clercine and Gérald Bataille, missing the joy they as soon as held.
The Saint-Clair Church in Delmas 33 additionally held a mass to remind the trustworthy of the loss of life of Jesus. Moreover, Deja Rara band supplied small meals of fish, potatoes, eggs, yams and Kijan pou fe (Haitian russian salad) to residents in Ti Plas Kazo.
Relive a number of the most holy moments of Good Friday in Haiti in The Haitian Instances’ sequence of photos and movies.
A girl presses her arms on her head and shuts her eyes amid the group in the course of the Good Friday Procession in Cap-Haïtien on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances. A girl holding a plate of potatoes, salade russe and fish at Ti Plas Kazo in Port-au-Prince. The Deja Rara band supplied meals to residents within the space. Photograph by Dieugo André for The Haitian Instances.Members of the Saint Rose rara band wearing matching crimson folkloric apparel in Gonaïves throughout their rara showdown for Good Friday on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onès Joseph for The Haitian Instances.A girl walks with a chunk of material on her head earlier than the beginning of the Good Friday March in Cap-Haïtien on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances. Altar boys strolling in line in the course of the Good Friday March in Cap-Haïtien on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances.A person and a girl stroll arm in arm, sporting matching white t-shirts in the course of the Good Friday Procession in Cap-Haïtien on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances.Rosaries on the market within the streets of Cap-Haïtien on Good Friday on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances.A girl bends right down to kiss a cross from a reverend on the Saint Clair Church within the Ti Plas Kazo space of Port-au-Prince, on Friday, April 18, 2025. Photograph by Dieugo André for The Haitian Instances.A priest pictured in the course of the Good Friday Procession in Cap-Haïtien on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances.A girl and a boy pose subsequent to one another for a photograph within the streets of Cap-Haïtien on Good Friday on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances.A girl in deep prayer at a station in the course of the Good Friday Procession in Cap-Haïtien on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances. Attendees of the Good Friday Mass on the Parc Saint Clair church within the Ti Plas Kazo space of Port-au-Prince, on Friday, April 18, 2025. Photograph by Dieugo André for The Haitian Instances.Attendees of the Good Friday Mass on the Parc Saint Clair church within the Ti Plas Kazo space of Port-au-Prince, on Friday, April 18, 2025. Photograph by Dieugo André for The Haitian Instances.Altar boys strolling within the streets of Cap-Haïtien in the course of the Good Friday Procession on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances.Ladies distributing cookies to worshippers in the course of the Good Friday Procession in Cap-Haïtien on April 18, 2025. Photograph by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Instances.
