Like many Egyptians, Badr also believes in jinn, or spirits, who influence life for good or bad, although she claims only to have her own angel. “He too believes in the Virgin Mary,” she said.

The dogma states that "Mary, Immaculate Mother of God ever Virgin, after finishing the course of her life on earth, was taken up in body and soul to heavenly glory." This definition as well as ...

Catholics around the world celebrated the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, a date that marks the moment when the Virgin Mary, with faith and obedience, accepted the divine call to become the ...

Instead, the goal was to tell Mary’s story, and to do it in such a way that all the miraculous occurrences are received as they might in real life. So when the angel Gabriel shows up and ...

506 Mary is a virgin because her virginity is the sign ... to a new and immortal life. She herself is a virgin, who keeps in its entirety and purity the faith she pledged to her spouse." ...

Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are ...

On March 17, 1697, on the feast day of St. Patrick and in the same year penal laws were enacted in Ireland banning Catholic bishops and priests from the country, an image of the Virgin Mary known ...

Roughly 100 Catholics from across the county paraded down Worth Avenue, singing hymns and reciting prayers in veneration of ...

His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, issued a congratulatory message on the Annunciation of the Holy Mother ...

He decided to make the gigantic statue of Virgin Mary as a memorial in 1981 ... saying the pope was blessing his life and his work. The pope’s benediction provided a huge moral support.