Catholic leaders in Timor-Leste are refocusing their energies on promoting Church-related events and devotions to attract more domestic and foreign pilgrims while helping people to grow in their faith ...

Detail of Sunnie Liu, "施洗 (To Baptize)" (2022), installation with televisions, buckets, baptism robes, sound tube, table, incense, and cushions (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) The naked body — or ...

“For a long time I was obsessed with the idea that this other person was going to complete me. What I’ve learned is that it feels like we all came from this soul sea before getting split up, and ...

Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period, Vol. 51, No. 3 (2020), pp. 309-338 (30 pages) ...

Most people know that the Virgin Mary is very popular among Catholic and Orthodox Christians. But what they usually don't know is that the Mother of God is also venerated by devotees from other faiths ...

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""This is the equation of my life,"" writes Bostrom: ""One husband plus two jobs plus three children plus half a dozen projects all going on at once."" It's no wonder that she feels exhausted, and she ...

Thousands of pilgrims braved the cold to take a holy dip at the Gangasagar Mela during Makar Sankranti. Believers from across India gathered at the sacred site, putting their faith above discomfort.

President Joe Biden’s town hall event at Mount St. Joseph University precipitated perennial questions about the relationship of religion and politics generally, and Catholic faith in the United States ...

When it comes to discussing suicide bombers, the controversial topic of religion is never far behind. Scholars and pundits have proposed several theories to explain why people would sacrifice their ...