There is a rhythm woven into everything. It pulses in the rising and setting sun, the budding and falling of leaves, the birth and the letting go of each living thing. This rhythm — life, death and ...

Catholics gathered in Rome on Holy Tuesday for a prayer vigil honoring Christians who have been killed for their faith in recent years. A monk in Nigeria who was kidnapped and brutally murdered last ...

‘As Christians, we are rooted in the hope of the Resurrection, and so we pray for a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land,’ the statement read. A Palestinian family walks past buildings destroyed in ...

Legionary Father Juan María Solana, director of the Magdala Center in the Holy Land, has made four recommendations for living a worthwhile Holy Week in 2024. 1. Holy Week is an opportunity to receive ...

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairman of the USCCB's Committee on International Justice and Peace called upon the faithful to renew prayers during Holy Week for an ...

Join America Media for a subscriber-only virtual event with James Martin, S.J., as we enter into Holy Week. Father Martin will speak with Ashley McKinless and Zac Davis, co-hosts of the “Jesuitical” ...

The Monday and Tuesday of Holy Week are known as Holy Monday and Holy Tuesday, but in Western Christianity, these days do not have widespread particular traditions or liturgy associated with them. The ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – For Christians, Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating events in the last days of Jesus Christ’s life. The Scriptures say that on Palm Sunday, ...

MOUNT ADAMS, Ohio (WKRC) - Thousands of people carried on a Cincinnati holy week tradition Friday. The tradition of Praying the Steps began at Holy Cross Immaculata in Mount Adams in the 1850s. Every ...

Visiting pilgrimage sites – places of reflection, prayer and healing – during Semana Santa or Holy Week can provide a much-needed break from daily life and help believers deepen their understanding of ...

Palestinian children react near the site of an Israeli airstrike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 24, ...