Christmas in India is a mix of vibrant lights, carols, and family gatherings that light up late winter nights. It blends ...

We’ve just had St Cecilia’s feast day and the week after, St Catherine’s, and I’m very glad to see these two significant ladies weighing in, as I need all the help I can get at the moment. We’re ...

Not long ago a radio speaker declared that a good Bible hour is better than a dozen sermons. One may be justified in saying also that a good evangelical hymn is better than much of the preaching one ...

The Great Lent is one of the four fasting seasons of the Orthodox Church. The Great Lent is considered abstaining from something one cherishes to eat, like the traditional Ketfo (a bowl of finely ...

MANILA: For Catholics, Lent means a period of sacrifice. Often, we think of this in terms of food: abstaining from meat on Fridays (hence the popularity of fish among Filipinos), or temporarily giving ...

It is chanted in all Orthodox Churches throughout the world during the five Fridays in Great Lent and constitutes a very concrete spiritual preparation for the Holy Week and Easter Services.

Music brings people together, it wakes them up and calms them down, it can be a source of great comfort and solidarity This is the time of year for several special services. First Communions, ...

The broad range of content includes worship and reflections across Network TV and Radio, with bespoke programming on BBC Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and across Local Radio Gareth Malone's ...

As we journey through Lent—a 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and culminates at sundown on Holy Thursday , we are invited to reflect deeply on our ...

The water has lost its chill: Lent has come. Japanese take to haiku as naturally as Canadians take to hockey; 1,000,000 Japanese habitually spend their leisure hours composing the 17-syllable poemlets ...

The Lenten season is known for many themes, one of which is repentance. Christians who celebrate Lent make a concerted effort to confess their sins to the Lord and to repent from them. Repentance ...