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The patriotic Virgin: How Mary's been marshaled for religious nationalism and military campaigns
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA mural in Kyiv depicts the Virgin Mary cradling a U.S.-made anti-tank weapon, a Javelin, which is...
Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, All Saints' Day remember those who have passed on
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 7 months agoDia de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, acknowledges the symbiotic relationship of life and...
Politicians, faith leaders and Ukrainian community say prayers for peace
Press Association News via AOL· 1 year agoHundreds of white paper angels, each representing an innocent child who has been killed in the war...
Popular Mystics and Psychics Predict How the War in Ukraine Will End
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAnna Conkling/The Daily BeastKOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine—In a large bedroom in eastern Ukraine, a woman...
Catholic vs. Christian: Overlap and Differences in the Religions
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAll squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares; the same goes for the Catholic vs. Christian distinction. All Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians consider themselves Catholic.
Reason for the season: Why is Christmas on Dec. 25?
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTime to lay a popular myth to rest. You know it. It goes like this: Those naughty Christians co-opted the pagan holiday Saturnalia, commemorated in winter among the Romans, and bent it to their ...
The Catholic view on indulgences and how they work today
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1517, the German theologian Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to Wittenberg’s Castle Church door,...
Polio virus detected in NYC wastewater, health officials say
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNEW YORK — The polio virus has been detected in New York City, health authorities said Friday, a...
'Africa & Byzantium' at Cleveland Museum of Art examines 'understudied' subject
The News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio via Yahoo News· 2 months agoApr. 12—It doesn't sound as if they had to give her the hard sell. "This was a co-organization between ourselves and our colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York City)," says ...