Topic: Blessed Virgin Mary
Reuters Life! Online Report | 2010-03-17 17:55:52
VATICAN CITY (Reuters Life!) - The Vatican has opened an investigation into reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the small town of Medjugorje in southern Bosnia which have drawn more than 30 million pilgrims and divided the Catholic Church. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Church's top doctrinal body, has named an international commission of inquiry ...
AP News | 2010-01-06 01:44:51
<div id="subtitle">Prices vary, but sellers in Iowa and Ohio see Holy Cross _ and cash _ in potatoes' centers</div><div><p>Move over, Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese. Step aside, Fish Stick Jesus. Online bidders, meet the Holy Cross Potato. Both of them. Yes, the 2009 holiday season bestowed (at ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-24 18:10:16
<div><p>Every night in the run-up to Christmas thousands of Egypt's Coptic Christians have been gathering in a Cairo suburb eager for a glimpse of a vision that has given hope to their marginalised community.</p><p>It is three hours past midnight in Al-Warrak, a poor working class neighbourhood ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-17 15:10:25
<div><p> A church billboard showing an apparently naked Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed together has sparked the ire of conservative Christians in New Zealand.</p><p>On the poster a sad-looking Joseph lies next to Mary, whose face is turned heavenwards under the words: "Poor Joseph. God was a hard ...
