Passion Play back to Mexico City after pandemic hiatus | Video

Mexico City, Apr 15 (EFE).- Residents of the Mexico City district of Iztapalapa staged their world-famous Passion Play on Friday for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic forced the spectacle to retreat behind closed doors in 2020.

"We emerge with strengthened faith, but also with a withered heart. It's not like the joy of other years, it's a little painful, but don't lose faith," resident Martin Lopez Peralta, clad in the costume of a Roman soldier, told Efe.

From early morning, crowds began to gather along the streets of Iztapalapa, a low-income borough that is home to some 1.8 million people, for the renewal of a tradition that dates from 1843. (Camera: AMÉRICA NERI).

SHOT LIST: ACTORS STAGE THE 179TH PASSION OF CHRIST IN IZTAPALAPA, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.

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Date: 16/04/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Religion and belief » Religious festival or holiday » Easter
Religion and belief
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 152 seconds
Reference: 7001160144
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