It's Good Friday, the last Friday before Easter Sunday. It's a holiday in almost all Christian countires. Around what we call "Easter Weekend" we have Maundy Thursday (this year 21 April - the date of Easter moves around depending on the positions of the moon), Good Friday (22 April), Easter Saturday (23 April), Easter Sunday (24 April) and Easter Monday (25 April). Other related celebrations are Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday, the last Tuesday and Wednesday before Lent; the period of fasting that starts four Sundays before Easter. In German: Shrove Tuesday = Faschingsdienstag Ash Wednesday = Aschermittwoch Lent = Fastenzeit Good Friday = Karfreitag Easter Saturday = Ostersamstag Easter Sunday = Ostersonntag Easter Monday = Ostermontag