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ST. PAUL, Minn. (RNS) The Xcel Energy Center was full of women – young and old, Protestant and Catholic, on fire for Jesus and burned out by church. Some came alone. Some came with the same ...
Photos: During Holy Week, ... Christian clergy participated in the Washing of the Feet ceremony. ... East Timorese Catholic women carry crosses during a Palm Sunday procession in Dili on Mar. 29, ...
A woman crosses herself in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in November 2014. The site was identified as a holy shrine by Helena, mother of the first Christian Roman emperor Constantine, in A.D. 326.
Holy Family with Saint Anne, by El Greco (1541-1614). De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Images Venus nursing Love, painting by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as il Guercino (1591-1666).
The first evidence of a Christian tattoo tradition traces back to the Holy Land and Egypt as early as the 6th or 7th Century. From there, the tradition spread throughout Eastern Christian ...
Good Friday, which takes place this year on April 14, is the second day of the Easter Triduum, the holy period that begins with Holy Thursday and ends with Easter Sunday.