An ecclesiastical holy year is meant to have an influence, to give added meaning, to everything the Catholic Church does over ...

Every ascension of an Alaafin is an important moment in Yoruba history.  So is it with the coming of our father, Alaafin Abimbola Akeem Owoade, who began his reign with the symbolic outing in Oyo ...

Ekor is a community that is part of the Okpameri ethnic nationality in Akoko Edo, in the Edo North Local Government Area of ...

We can all agree that we want to be happy, but it s much harder to find consensus when we ask what happiness is and how we ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

Msgr. Joseph Prior explains this Sunday's Palm Sunday Gospel account of Jesus’ crucifixion and death as a celebration of God’s love, a costly love that knows no bounds.

Thor has a number of incredible powers in Marvel Comics, and during his latest adventure, he got a new one, and it's the last ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

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

and humble obedience to God: “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.” When we look at the number of children in Africa who are on the ...

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