The Panguni Uthiram festival, a significant event in the Hindu calendar, kicked off on Saturday at the Thiru Avinankudi Temple in Palani with the hoisting of the holy flag. This sacred ritual marked ...

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who ...

The Diocese of Jerusalem, which runs Al-Ahili hospital, said the medical building has been hit five times since the start of ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

The Archbishop of York has condemned Israel’s “appalling” latest strike on a hospital in Gaza, which left a girl dead. The ...

Conjure up images of Trump as Graham Chapman’s King Arthur romping across the land with his coconut-clapping fake horses, ...

Holy water is water blessed by the priest with solemn prayer to beg God's blessing on those who ... palms, crucifixes, images of the Blessed Virgin and of the saints, rosaries, and scapulars.

Holy Week culminates with the celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection on Easter Sunday. This is a day of joy, because Jesus ...

Pilgrimages, which traditionally have been spiritual walks to holy places, are making a comeback ... the hooks in the Norman walls conjure images of children in thick woollen coats; they ...

Faustina wrote in her diary that she began the Novena for the conversion of the whole world that all may recognize God's Mercy and ... They are living images of my compassionate heart.

It’s Holy Week—and the tension between mercy and vengeance isn’t just a theological debate. It’s front-page news, from ...

Images of Mary and Christ are plentiful, as are images of them sitting in a rose garden. Since most of the population from ...