Tourists visiting a church in the picturesque French town of Chateau-Chalon were surprised to discover that local pranksters had replaced the fonts' holy water with alcohol, the local tourism ...

Austrian scientists find 86 percent of holy water contains fecal ... the Medical University of Vienna tested water from 21 springs in Austria and 18 fonts in Vienna and found samples contained ...

It comes from the French word fonte ... arriving from the ecclesiastical Latin font-em around 1000, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. By transference, it became a receptacle for holy water ...

The outbreak of the H1N1 virus has led many churches to suspend the tradition of having holy water in open fonts into which people dip their hands. The new machine works like an automatic soap ...

A man accused of stripping naked and masturbating in a church’s holy water font has pleaded not guilty to indecent exposure. Zachary Burdick, 21, denied the lewd act – said to have taken place ...

The shoes were designed by Brooklyn-based creative arts company MSCHF and they come with holy water in the soles ... include "Times Newer Roman," a new font that is the classic Times New Roman ...

The Philippines went into lockdown to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in March, and as a safety precaution, churches emptied their holy water fonts and provided hand sanitizer.

AN 800-year old holy water font was stolen last weekend from the ruins of Bannow Church, a heritage site dating back to the 13th century. The priceless stone font disappeared some time over the ...

A DUBLIN businessman says he has devised a plan to get around the Holy Water font ban by offering churches touchless dispensers normally used as hand sanitisers. Peter Vallely, who is a consultant ...

Tourists visiting a church in the picturesque French town of Chateau-Chalon were surprised to discover that local pranksters had replaced the fonts’ holy water with alcohol, the local tourism ...