Since the birth of my son two and a half years ago, I have lived in a kind of fugue state. It feels as if I grew a second ...

Tower: I approach the season with prayer rather than paranoia ... most other Christians have forgotten Halloween for another year I continue to pray because Samhain is not necessarily October 31st.

The basis for trick-or-treating is likely derived from a Samhain tradition. Villagers dressed as ghosts ... asking for “soul cakes” in exchange for prayers for their deceased loved ones. In Scotland ...

Samhain is even mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature ... The people would also sing and say prayers for the dead in exchange for the soul cakes. Bobbing for apples—another favourite ...

(The Conversation) — Alcoholics Anonymous helped make the Serenity Prayer famous, but it was written by one of the 20th century’s most influential theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr. (The ...

BOONE COUNTY, Ky (WXIX) -Children, parents, and community leaders gathered in Verona on Sunday for a prayer service in response to the loss of five students who died by suicide since November.

With prayers on their lips, residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' ancestral village in Gujarat are waiting for her safe return to Earth with bated breath and planned Deepavali-like ...

family and prayer. Floyd begins the book by recalling a conversation with his aging mother, who has Alzheimer’s. She did not remember his name; Floyd’s mother, a woman with an advanced degree ...

The Church prays for the dead, and this prayer says much about the reality of the Church itself. It says that the Church continues to live in the hope of eternal life.Prayer for the dead is almost ...

Hurriyat chairman and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was allegedly denied permission to lead Friday prayers at Srinagar’s historic Jama Masjid, days after the Ministry of Home ...

During Ramadan in 2025, Muslims in Dubai will be fasting for just over 14 hours per day according to official Dubai prayer times. To signal the start of the fast, following the late night suhoor, you ...

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their ...