Historian Matthew Harris discusses the life and times of liberal Latter-day Saint apostle Hugh B. Brown, who clashed with a number of eventual church presidents.

The Marian shrine, located about 25 miles north of Philadelphia, was established in 1955 by a Polish priest from the Order of ...

“Parishioners lay them out as an expression of homage to Christ present in the host,” said Mariola Drapala, from Czestochowa, who was taking part in her parish procession this year, having walked the ...

Mel Gibson (right) directs actor Jim Caviezel in 'The Passion of the Christ.' | 20TH CENTURY FOX Did Netflix cut a famous Bible verse, which some Jewish scholars say is "the forbidden chapter," from ...

Images of the Madonna and Child in a rose garden were popular. “Madonna in a Rose Bower” (1440-1442) (20”x16”) (oil and tempera on wood panel) by German painter Stefan Lochner (1410-1451) is a ...

In most Christian churches across the West, the Virgin Mary is portrayed with light skin, much like her son Jesus Christ. But an estimated 400 to 500 versions of the Madonna portray her with dark skin ...

In Częstochowa, home to the famous shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa and the miraculous image of the Black Madonna, there is a 14-metre-high statue of Saint John Paul II.

And, above all, the figure of Christ. When Cleage published The Black Messiah in 1968, what Cleage did was to present Jesus as a kind of Malcolm X of his time, a black revolutionary leader who was to ...

I’ve heard far too often that Black folks don’t observe the cultural holiday. Here's why these families do.

At its peak, the Shrine — renamed in 1978 as the Shrine of the Black Madonna of the Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church — had eight churches in Michigan, five of them in Detroit.

I’ve been ex communicated 3 times. It doesn’t seem fair. Sincerely Madonna — Madonna (@Madonna) May 5, 2022 This somewhat tongue-in-cheek message was simply not like a prayer to many Catholics.