Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk, a small bottle of holy water, and the words for the house blessing so that each family can bless their home. A chalk home blessing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Christmas holiday is in the rearview mirror for most people. But there is one more occasion on the religious end of the ...

While for most Americans, the holiday season closes out with the New Year, many other cultures continue celebrating through the first week of January. Three Kings Day, or Epiphany, is celebrated today ...

No matter how you calculate the length of the Christmas season, Epiphany has inarguably come and gone. But this year, it struck me for the first time that the feast we celebrate is actually composed ...

The star the Magi followed to find the Christ Child is a symbol of God’s love for all people and not a sign of the power and fame of those who think of themselves as “stars,” Pope Francis said on ...

Addis Ababa, January 18, 2026 (ENA)—President Taye Atske Selassie has arrived in Gondar to attend the Timket celebrations, in the historic city often regarded as the “Camelot” of Ethiopia’s ...

The Christmas holiday is in the rearview mirror for most people. But there is one more occasion on the religious end of the holidays. The Epiphany, or Three Kings Day, is on Sunday, Jan. 5, or Monday, ...