>>Here in Brazil, tomorrow will be hollyday.. Its "pascoa" celebration (in portuguese).. I don't know this name for english or other language.. Help me !!
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>>What about tomorrow, will be holiday in your area ?
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>>Claudio
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>For Christians, it is Good Friday, Sunday is Easter. The Jews celebrate Passover but it does not usually coincide with the Christian Easter celebration. This year I think Passover/Seder that falls on the weekend of April 23rd.

Not all Christians observe Good Friday and Easter as church holidays. It's true that Good Friday is a bank holiday in the USA and the New York Stock Exchange is closed. Both Easter and Passover are scheduled in relationship to the first full moon of Springs. Different formulas are used but sometimes the dates do coincide. Not all Christians observe a church calendar. The Roman church appeared to have started this and historical records indicate that both Christmas and Easter are adaptations of earlier pagan festivals. There is enough in the Bible that people neglect to believe and act upon without giving them more to do in the form of festival observance <g>. Since the time of Cain and Abel, there has always been care required in offering acceptable worship.

Historical records indicate that Christmas was an adaptation was a celebration of the Sun that was observed around the darkest time of the year in the northern hemisphere. Easter was a celebration of a goddess of fertility that was observed in the Spring around the time when plants began to grow again. Thus with Christmas we see many round ornaments that look like the sun and a celebration of light. At Easter time, we see bunnies and eggs and other images that represent fertility.

Christmas and Easter are both a mixture of various observances both secular and religious. At our point in space and time, professing Christians are often a mixture with diversity of belief and practice<g>. Only truth is pure.