Popes in my lifetime have written eloquently about Mary, many of whom had a deep devotion to the Mother of God. Pope St. John Paul II, in his encyclical “Redemptoris Mater” made this observation about ...

Indonesia is a Muslim-majority nation, with nearly 87 percent of its 277 million people following Islam. Protestants are 7.47 ...

Almost 200 people have fallen ill in a norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship that left Southampton at the beginning of March, government data has revealed. The Queen Mary 2 departed England on ...

Well before the French-Canadian parish completed the present upper church in the south end of Fall River in 1906, the basement shrine to St. Anne (the mother of Mary and therefore grandmother of ...

But throngs of pilgrims are already flocking to the church in Assisi, Italy, where his body wearing sneakers, jeans and a sweatshirt lies in a shrine ... near the Vatican recently displayed in its ...

THE Met Office is warning of hail, thunder and snow to hit in just hours ahead of Mother's Day - with some areas forecast for sunshine. The forecast coincides with clocks going forward ...

It is thus named as it is situated north of the famous and historic Jambukeshwarar temple at Thiruvanaikaval (Thiruvanaikka), near Thiruchirapalli ... where the central shrine has the Ap Lingam ...

Villagers are searching for an amateur artist who ‘renovated’ a more than 200-year-old shrine in Poland ... Facebook) Mother Mary appears to have a lack of facial features – except for ...

JESUS and Virgin Mary statues have been left looking ... It's better not to touch it than to ruin it." The shrine is located near the village of Studzionka, in Poland and dates back to 1820.

But now locals are up in arms after a botched renovation of the 1820 shrine has left the Blessed Mother ... Mary looking upwards. 'Another example of good intentions... Let's hope that in the near ...