ROME: On April 12, Saturday afternoon, on the eve of Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week, Pope Francis visited the ...

For over 200 years, villagers in southern Poland have paid homage to a roadside shrine depicting Jesus and the Virgin Mary. But now locals are up in arms after a botched renovation of the 1820 ...

On March 17, 1697, on the feast day of St. Patrick and in the same year penal laws were enacted in Ireland banning Catholic bishops and priests from the country, an image of the Virgin Mary known ...

NAGASAKI: A fragment of a statue of the Virgin Mary was carried in procession last night at the Nagasaki Peace Park to mark the end of the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing that destroyed the ...