We got so preoccupied with the potential horrors of Y2K computer failure and other portents that it was easy to forget how each fresh new decade brings with it Europe’s most famous Passion play.

(RNS) — For the past three decades, the most heinous anti-Jewish excesses of the world's most famous Passion play have been slowly eliminated, but more work needs to be done. (RNS) — The Oberammergau ...

Modernity Vs. Tradition in Oberammergau Bavarian Village Divided over Updates to World-Famous Passion Play For almost 400 years, the residents of the Bavarian village of Oberammergau have performed ...

Numerous river cruise lines are offering sailings that include attending the once-every-decade Passion Play performance in Oberammergau, Germany, in 2020. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Oberammergau ...

Reporting from Oberammergau, Germany — — Villages in the Bavarian Alps go to sleep early on summer nights. Silence rolls down from the mountaintops along with an eiderdown blanket of fog. A ...

After 376 years, the Oberammergau Passion Play is still a work in progress. Performed every decade as a promise to God, it now confronts its own controversial history as much as it explores its reason ...

Linderhof Palace is straight from the pages of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale and was one of the lavish hunting lodges used by Ludwig II. Explore the spectacular Hall of Mirrors, the tapestry ...

Jesus is late. No one has seen him this morning. The priest in a white cassock by the door to St Anne's Church in the Old City in Jerusalem shrugs as though he wonders where Jesus is, too. The early ...

THERE is a profound rationalism in man’s former acceptance of miracles. In 1634, when the plague held heyday in Bavaria, Oberammergau quarantined itself against the world, armed watchmen guarding road ...

For almost 400 years, the residents of the Bavarian village of Oberammergau have performed their world-famous Passion Play, a reenactment of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. But the play's ...