Based on the polynomial reduction, a holonomic (or, P-recursive) sequence F (k) can be decomposed into a summable part and a reduced part. In this paper, we show that when F (k) has a certain kind of symmetry, the reduced part contains only odd or even powers. The reduction in this case is called a power-partible reduction, which is then applied to obtain new series of congruences for Apéry numbers A k and central Delannoy polynomials D k (z). In particular, when p > 3 is a prime, we prove that for each r ∈ N, there is a p-adic integer c r such that p−1 k=0 (2k + 1) 2r+1 A k ≡ c r p (mod p 3 ).