On the rural islands of Nagasaki a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of ...

“So I always keep a bottle of mineral water that has been blessed during morning Mass,” she says. For this practicing Catholic, the use of holy water enables her to “begin the day ...

A 50-year-old man polluted holy water with urine at a York County Catholic Church earlier this month, according to court records. Jesse John Sokoll, 50, of no fixed address, has been charged with ...

Researchers are warning that bottles of "holy water" from a well in Ethiopia could be laced with dangerous bacteria that could cause cholera. The bottles of holy water were absolutely teeming with ...

European tourists who toted home bottles of water from a holy well in Ethiopia were likely hoping for blessings and spiritual cleansing—but instead carried an infectious curse and got an ...

Two had travelled to Ethiopia in January, and acquired a small plastic bottle of water with water from the holy well in Bermel Giorgis. Upon their return to Germany, both people consumed the water.

Recognising the increasing global demand of the sacred Holy water of the Triveni Sangam, the Uttar Pradesh government announced on Friday that it has dispatched 1,000 bottles of the holy water to ...

Despite informing them of his status as a Catholic priest and the fact that he had a bottle of holy water in his bag, they searched his belongings. Allegedly, even his backpack’s zipper was damaged in ...

I sat down and sent out a few emails—filling friends in on my visit to the Fiji Water ... ‘Holy Healing Waters’ in Lourdes, France or Fatima, Portugal.” Switching effortlessly from ...

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 ...

A man has been arrested in Maryland after authorites said he caused “disruptions” at two Christmas Eve masses, pouring whiskey into the holy water and pelting worshippers with tangerines.

Later that night, during Midnight Mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, police say Von Goetz reportedly poured whiskey into the holy water and ... with a whiskey bottle but was unsuccessful.