As Amazonian bishops gathered at the Vatican on Oct. 21, 2019, a man entered a nearby church after dawn and stole three Indigenous statues brought to Rome for the occasion. He threw them into the ...

Pagan Origins and the Name Eostre Easter is believed to have originated as a pagan festival celebrating the arrival of spring ...

Early Christians started marking bread with a cross to show their devotion, and ate it throughout the year. They believed the ...

Pagan Saxons worshipped a spring goddess named Eostre. They baked bread during springtime festivals to celebrate new life and longer days. The name “Eostre” is where we get the English word “Easter”.

Charles Brammall rabbits on about Easter. I didn’t grow up going to church on Good Friday- it wasn’t part of my ...

Easter is a holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his crucifixion. It is a deeply spiritual ...

As the presumed anniversary of the day of the Crucifixion, Good Friday had for ages been solemnly observed throughout ...

Jewish people have also shared special bread during holy times like Passover, and scholars have debated whether these customs influenced early Christian bread traditions. Pagan Saxons worshipped a ...

In many countries, Easter is still the day of days. But in America, we're all about Christmas -- divested, mostly, of its religious trappings.

Eggs and flowers are rather obvious symbols of female fertility, but in European traditions ... parson tried to stop the custom due to its pagan associations, but he was unsuccessful, and the ...