• Israel's Easter message:
  Barring Thousands of Worshipers From Attending Easter Ceremony. 26/04/2003
  

Other Easter Messages:

• "Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Let's rejoice and renew our hope. Yes, brothers and sisters, we invite you to rejoice in spite of the hardships we are suffering. We invite you to live in spite of the death that surrounds us. We invite you to love in spite of the hatred that demolishes the hearts in these days. Christ is risen. He defeated death and death has no more power on him. This is our Easter wish for all: to see that death is overcome and has no more power in this Holy Land on the hearts of Palestinians and Israelis." Easter Message from the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah April2003
• An Easter Message to Christian Partners Around the World. From the Moderator of the 214th General Assembly (2002) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, and the Worldwide Ministries Division of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

• Easter Message 2003. The Rt. Rev. Riah Abu El-Assal Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem. Friday, April 18th, 03
• "With profound grief I think of the wake of violence and bloodshed, with no sign of ceasing, in the Holy Land." Read Pope john Paul II's Easter message: Work tirelessly for peace. April 20, 2003
• "In the midst of a violent world, we seek signs of hope where peace and justice can emerge as speedily as possible. Out of the conflict in Iraq, especially, we must pray earnestly that new life will emerge out of death, that order will come out of chaos, that the hungry will be fed and that world leaders will exercise their responsibilities to heal and rebuild communities caught in the midst of conflict." A time of great contradictions Easter message from the Reverend Ian White, President of the Methodist Conference. April 14, 2003.

• Sermon given by the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams
  at the Cathedral Church of St George the Martyr, Jerusalem, on Palm Sunday,
  13th April 2003