Many churches will be holding services for Divine Mercy Sunday, which as always takes place a week after Easter Sunday. Preceded by a novena which began on Good Friday, it is a day to implore God’s mercy. The Divine Mercy devotion came about through the visions of St Faustina Kowalska, a 20th-century Polish mystic.

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On Sunday April 28 Spain goes to the polls for its first general election since 2016. The Socialist PSOE party leads in the polls, but would need to form a coalition to govern. PP, which is second in the polls, proposes restricting access to abortion.