The Feast of the Holy Innocents is celebrated every year on December 28. It is a day when the Church celebrates the martyrdom of the babies who were killed by King Herod out of fear that the newly ...

On 28 December, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, churches across the region remembered children killed in war, particularly the 8,000 who have died in the Holy Land since October 2023. At an ...

Today the Church remembers the Holy Innocents, the children mentioned in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 2:16-18. When Herod realized that the wise men had tricked him, and were not returning to tell ...

But it is a book to read, even if only briefly, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, for it to coincide with the Gospel reading of the day that should resonate with a present-day context. Call it ...

Amid the festivities and rejoicing over the birth of Jesus Christ, we mark today the feast of the Holy Innocents. Scripture tells us that King Herod had learned from the magi about the birth of a ...

Catholic charities and church leaders were among those who spoke out against modern crimes against children on the Feast of Holy Innocents on 28 December. Jesuit media highlighted how the story of ...

The festival was born over 200 years ago when plantation owners gave their enslaved workers the day off to mark the Feast of the Holy Innocents. The Feast marks the massacre of the children of ...

In the Catholic Church, the massacre of the babies of Bethlehem is commemorated each year as the Feast of the Holy Innocents. The feast is held every Christmastide on December 28 — today.

This horrific act fulfilled the prophecy of Jeremiah, grieving mothers weeping for their children. The Feast of the Holy Innocents, observed on December 28 in the liturgical calendar, honours these ...

On Dec. 28, the day when the Catholic Church commemorates the feast of the Holy Innocents, Spanish-speaking cities in Latin America and Spain will join together in the “Light Up Life” campaign ...

This portion of Guite’s poem, “Refugee,” commemorating the Feast of the Holy Innocents on Dec. 28, reminds readers of “what might be called ‘the shadow side’ of the Christian story ...