The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

Some groups gather at the monastery’s grotto, a large collection of stones stacked in a semi-circle that act as a pedestal ...

What is most significant is that the particular tradition of ‘Mothering Sunday’ – as found in the UK, Ireland and some ...

Santa Semana—or Holy Week—in Spain is a big, BIG deal. Started in the 1600’s as a way for the “common folk” to understand and ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation ...

Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...

Museum's American funding arm heaps well-deserved thanks on Veronica Atkins Palm Beach Police and Fire Citizen's Academy provides up-close look at emergency work Catholics celebrate the Virgin Mary in ...

According to her IMDb bio ... Virgin (1995). She’s since taken on major roles, including playing Jane Banks — the grown-up daughter of George and Winifred Banks from the original Mary Poppins ...

This hymn, a profound devotional poem dedicated to the Virgin Mary, comprises twenty-four stanzas ... Credit: Maggas, CC BY 3.0/Wikipedia Commons On Holy Friday, church bells throughout Greece ring ...

To see Mary shattered before me was a reminder that when we see something sacred broken, we must do everything possible to ...

JESUS and Virgin Mary statues have been left looking like cartoon characters after a restoration job went wrong. The religious shrine in Poland has been mocked after the botched restoration left ...

For over 200 years, villagers in southern Poland have paid homage to a roadside shrine depicting Jesus and the Virgin Mary. But now locals are up in arms after a botched renovation of the 1820 ...