Austrian scientists find 86 percent of holy water contains fecal matter. Sept. 14, 2013— -- Despite its purported cleansing properties, holy water could actually be more harmful than healing ...

On the basis of age-old custom, water is one of the signs that the Church often uses in blessing the faithful. Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine ...

“Putting holy water into a squirt gun and treating it as if it were a comedy sketch on SNL is treating both the sacrament and the blessed water unworthily,” said Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, assistant ...

A Roman Catholic church in rural Louisiana hoping to maximize its blessings has come up with a way to do it: filling up a crop-duster plane with holy water and letting the sanctified liquid mist ...

In January 2025, seven people in Europe came down with cholera after sipping or splashing themselves with holy water brought from a sacred Ethiopian well. The holy water, it turns out, was teeming ...

We have a river in India called the Ganges—it is the source of our holy water. We put a few drops of holy water in the mouth because we believe, if they get holy water, then they may get ...

When getting blessed, you might also be getting sick. Researchers say holy water could actually be harmful to your health, as some of it contains fecal matter. "Austrian scientists tested water ...

Multiple British nationals fell ill with a drug-resistant strain of cholera after drinking holy water abroad. In Ethiopia, almost half of the country’s population – nearly 60,000,000 – don ...

The owners of Holy Water Coffee, a new coffeehouse at 712 E. 100 South in Salt Lake City, take the beverage so seriously that they call it their “holy water.” The term isn’t a dig at ...

An uber-cool West Hollywood bar called Holy Water, which just happens to be connected to the trio’s wildly popular, upscale cannabis consumption lounge, the Woods. The bar on Santa Monica ...

Officials said there was no link between the water and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's hospital visit. The rivulet is holy in Sikhism and has undergone a 22-year cleaning project, per local media.

"Putting holy water into a squirt gun and treating it as if it were a comedy sketch on SNL is treating both the sacrament and the blessed water unworthily," said Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, assistant ...