Sundays, or one of three obtuse 40-day periods throughout the year. Also, no imagining things. Or mouth stuff.

Sundays, or one of three obtuse 40-day periods throughout the year. Also, no imagining things. Or mouth stuff.

Annamalai performed what is regarded as a high-level act of penance, protesting against the sexual assault incident at Anna ...

Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president K Annamalai flogged himself six times on Friday to protest against the ...

Amid security worries, millions of pilgrims are expected to descend on Rome for a Jubilee Year of major Catholic celebrations ...

Merging technology and religion is a risk, not a road to spiritual fulfillment, says a scholar of Christianity.

Born in Ghana, Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa had never encountered a nun until adulthood. Growing up a cradle Catholic in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Zoey Stapleton, a postulant with the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R. of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother, attends ...

Any act of penance that would seriously hinder one's health or the health of others would be contrary to the will of God. Fasting is the act of doing with less. In the Catholic Church, those ages ...

The next week of Advent offers us peace as we await the birth of our Savior. The third week brings us joy amid Lent's fasting and penance. The fourth and last week brings us to remember "the Angel's ...

In Jainism, happiness is the ultimate bliss for which people strive. Jains believe in fasting, meditating and observing penance to achieve happiness. Chaitra Devarhubli Updated : Sep 21, 2011, 06:03 ...