"Is any among you sick, let him call for the presbyters of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and ...

Modern people often regard the idea of a holy war as a contradiction ... In ancient times the authority was often God - in the Bible there are several occasions where God gave direct instructions ...

The Revised English Bible updates the New English Bible, retaining the latter’s elegant literary style, but removing its archaisms. The REB employs a modest amount of inclusive language and is good ...

The New English Bible was a translation undertaken by the major Protestant churches of the British Isles. Scholars translated from the best Hebrew and Greek texts, aiming to present the full meaning ...

In the twentieth year of his reign (326), the Emperor Constantine sent his mother Saint Helen to Jerusalem to venerate the holy places and to find the site of the Holy Sepulchre and of the Cross.

Three young Christians give us three different perspectives on what the Bible means in their lives and how they read it. They each talk about how it gives them guidance and they also show how they ...

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one of the most important, complex, and profound days of celebration in the Catholic Church. Holy Thursday celebrates the ...

Holy water is also removed from the fonts in churches on Good Friday and Holy Saturday in preparation for the blessing of the water at the Easter Vigil. This removal also corresponds to those days ...

College of the Holy Cross is a private institution that was founded in 1843. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,219 (fall 2023), its setting is city, and the campus size is 174 acres.

While living in the U.S., the Trivedi family was looking for a solution to follow a ritual practice of worshiping at one of ...