Even as religious belief declines in Spain, the processions at Seville's Semana Santa — the Holy Week lead-up to Easter — draw crowds moved by music, tradition and powerful emotion.

Holy Week is the holiest week of the Greek Orthodox Church, symbolizing the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Normally, the holy season sees tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims congregate to retrace the last footsteps, torments of Jesus.

Christians around the world speak different languages and hold to different theological distinctives or political views, but the death and resurrection of Christ unites us across the ages, marked in Holy Week with hymns, processions and worship services.

Holy Monday is the first of the six weekdays leading up to Easter, called Great and Holy Week in the Christian world.

Many Americans travel south to Mexico during Semana Santa, or the holy week leading up to Easter. In this episode of Border Report Live, West Texas correspondent Julian Resendiz tells host Rudy Mireles why.

Holy Saturday is a day of waiting, but Romans 8 reminds us: the waiting is not hopeless. The Spirit who hovered over the waters at creation, who raised Jesus from the grave, is already at work in us.

One religious brotherhood's refusal to include women in its Holy Week procession has made front-page news in Spain.