Voodoo - a mix of African religions and Roman Catholicism - is central to Haitian life. In 2003, then-Haitian President Jean ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Hundreds of people of all religious persuasions are flocking to be blessed by a 17-year-old South African girl who claims to have had visions of the Virgin Mary ...

But Mary gained millions of new Catholic followers with the Spanish conquest in the New World in the early 1500s—and, more recently, in Africa as Christianity has spread there.

Worship has been banned on a small rural hill in Burundi, where a woman claims to see the Virgin Mary on the same day of every month. The 23-year-old's claims of an apparition have become so widely ...

Africa has registered the greatest growth, by 3.31%. Victoria Cardiel/ACI Prensa/CNA World Idaho Governor Signs Bill to Protect Religious, Conscience Rights of Doctors and Nurses ...

Google lists about 350 000 entries for Virgin Mary sightings. The most famous claim came from the village of Lourdes, France, where a peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed in 1858 that she ...

Rome Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 12:00 pm. Pope Francis visited the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Monday to entrust his upcoming trip to Africa to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

During the May 13 Mass that he offered on the feast day of Our Lady of Fátima at the shrine dedicated to her in Portugal, Cardinal Juan José Omella said the Virgin Mary asks of us today the same ...

Visualizing the Virgin Mary — an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles — shows how she was portrayed by artists in the Middle Ages, before ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. The statue of Mary itself is to be 133.2-feet high, sitting atop a pedestal in the form of a 50-foot-high crown.