The tour buses that cross ... Bank carry a virtual United Nations of pilgrims. One by one the buses park and discharge their passengers, who emerge blinking in the dazzling sun: Indian women ...

T HIS year's "Traslacion," or the annual procession of the Black Nazarene — the statue of Jesus of Nazareth carrying his cross toward Calvary for his crucifixion — again reminded us of the ...

Traditionally, the day starts out with local girls and women decorating a replica (or “epitaph ... at churches and squares of the cities and villages before 11 p.m., carrying large white candles.

I get to visit many churches and chapels to do the ex-servicemen and women’s rites. At the older and more traditional churches, the paintings and statues draw my attention. I’m interested in those of ...

I took out a tremendous cross. It was mine to carry ... and we hang it on the walls of our homes as a harmless decoration. But for the men and women of Jesus’ time, death by crucifixion was not only ...

The Catholic church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Mindat, in the state of Chin, in the northwest Myanmar has been badly damaged in air strikes by the Myanmar army. This church was recently chosen as ...

“I and the many priests, deacons, women and men religious ... As his episcopal motto he adopted: “Ave Crux Spes Unica,” meaning “Hail the Cross, Our Only Hope.” He succeeded retiring Bishop Lawrence D ...

Sister Anne Arabome with other women religious at the Sophia Institute ... mission in life – virtually and in person,” she told Crux. Arabome: I would say the inspiration to establish Sophia ...

The number of women and girls caught carrying knives has trebled in the last decade, according to new LBC research, with a sharp increase since the rape and murder of Sarah Everard. Shocking figures ...

According to the Bible, this happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before his crucifixion ... Jesus was forced to carry a massive, wooden cross through the city to Golgotha ...