Under the direction of Portuguese missionaries, large quantities of ivory sourced from their East African colonies came to be used to carve ecclesiastical statuettes by indigenous artisans.

8 And he said, The human one is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of little ... Meyer This text and translation of the Gospel of Thomas is ...

Elizabeth Tabish finds playing Mary Magdalene on "The Chosen" an honor and privilege. Tabish's portrayal resonates with ...

The divine child cannot arrive without the Spirit-filled female body: the birth canal, the vagina, the vulva. The rose.

For decades, the royal family has made a habit of visiting St Mary Magdalene, a 16th-century church on their Sandringham property, on Christmas day, and 2024 is shaping up to be no different.

Queen Mary of Denmark knows how to get into the holiday spirit. While volunteering at a food shelter in Copenhagen this week, the fashionable Danish queen wore a festive snowflake cashmere sweater ...

Inspired by his friend and mentor Henri Nouwen, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S., ...

It was announced last week that Disney+ is green-lighting a second series of the TV series Rivals, based on Jilly Cooper’s 1980s novels. It features an ensemble cast, including Irish actors ...

MANILA, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Mary Jane Veloso, who received a last-minute reprieve from execution by firing squad for drug trafficking in Indonesia in 2015, arrived in the Philippines in the early ...

MANILA, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said legal experts would consider clemency requests for Mary Jane Veloso, who had been sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug ...

Tasmanian-born Mary Donaldson met Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark at a pub during the Sydney 2000 Olympics. The pair became engaged in 2003 and married on 14 May 2004 at Copenhagen. The couple ...