Rome has been all gussied up for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year. An extra 10 million pilgrims are forecast, adding to last year's record of 22 million. More than $8 billion has been spent to ...

In the Latin Church, believers determine how they will observe Lent (fasting is prescribed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday). In contrast, the dietary observances of Orthodox Great Lent ...

Baptism does what nothing else can. As Martin Luther said, by baptism “we are made holy and are saved, which no other kind of ...

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish child walks through the streets in costume during the Purim festival celebrations in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) ...

The conjecture that the Irish, like the other inhabitants of the British Isles are of Hebrew extraction has for many centuries been an open secret and by no means the exclusive possession of the ...

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His Majesty King Abdullah receives on Tuesday Jerusalem Islamic awqaf representatives, church leaders, and figures ... resettlement - Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem underlines importance of His ...

When the woman died, she was buried under the altar of a church some three kilometers northwest of Jerusalem’s Old ... including the Eastern Orthodox Church, are also venerated for their ascetic ...

(photo credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN) The world’s first archaeological evidence of extreme asceticism practiced by nuns has been uncovered in Jerusalem ... under the church altar - bema.