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On All Things Considered this week (Sunday April 10th 2011 at 09.03 repeated on Thursday April 14th at 05.30) Roy Jenkins discovers why a pilgrimage to St. David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire is so important to members of the Armenian community in Wales. And we visit a church in Cardiff which is spreading the message of Easter by posting Jesus Graffiti on the outside of its buildings.

Graffiti painted on a pristine wall is usually bemoaned as an act of vandalism, and it prompts predictable indignation. But at Beulah United Reformed Church, Rhiwbina in Cardiff, graffiti has not only been tolerated - it's been commissioned, as part of the church's attempt to get its community thinking about the Easter story.

Also in the programme, we hear about a pilgrimage to St. David's this month, which will strengthen links between Wales and Armenia, the former Soviet republic in the Caucasus which was the first country in the world to recognise Christianity as its official religion.

Pilgrims will be travelling from across England and Wales for what's believed to be the first ever celebration of the Armenian liturgy in an Anglican cathedral. Led by the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church primate in Great Britain and Ireland, they will also commemorate those who died in what they regard as the genocide of the first world war.

Images of Jesus graffiti can be viewed here: