If Candlemas be fair and bright, winter has another flight. If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, winter will not come ...

The Irish custom of ‘Little Christmas’ has evolved over generations — but always esteems female kin. An antique Irish family’s Nativity ... to the Register her Catholic childhood.

The Christmas season ... the 16th and 17th centuries, Catholic composers in Latin America fused European, African and Indigenous musical styles to create Nativity choral works that reflected ...

Every January, an area in downtown Mexico City is full of people with the broken religious sculptures looking for a workshop ...

Mexicans restore their baby Jesus figurines in time for Candlemas, on Feb. 2, the Catholic feast marking the end of Christmas ...

It might cost more to repair them than to buy new ones. But baby Jesus figurines have such sentimental value in families that every January an area in downtown Mexico City is full of people with the ...

The iconic St Peter’s Catholic Church in Padungan that had social media abuzz with excitement over its impending opening finally gave the public, Christians and people of all faiths, what they had ...

ALONE among national congregations in the Catholic Church, the Filipino faithful are allowed two celebrations related to Christmas: the nine-day early-morning or late-evening novena Masses before the ...

The following is a list of in-person and online worship services and events happening at churches and synagogues in the Oakland County area. Visit websites or call for service times and events. • ...

From that time, the Roman Church has always observed this arrangement of Advent, which gives it four weeks, the fourth being that in which Christmas ... Ante-Feast of the Nativity to December ...

The view from her flat near the top of the High Coats tower block is unobstructed – there are few buildings as tall in ...

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Catholicos Karekin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, listed “lust for power” among Armenia’s problems on Monday, January 6, as he celebrated a Christmas ...