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Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

WEBOur Lady of Good Health in Bangalore, India, is home to a celebrated feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The feast draws hundreds of thousands of people. On the feast …

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Shrine and feast honoring Mary attract Indian Catholics and Hindus

WEBIt is home to a celebrated feast that culminates on September 8th each year, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The shrine features a basilica church where …

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Practices & Values Catholics & Cultures

WEBPractices & Values. Catholics of different countries and regions of the world practice and celebrate the faith in diverse ways. In some places in the world, people practice …

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Food & Fasting Catholics & Cultures

WEBEven though Christian norms for food are not as sharply and uniformly codified as in other faiths, Christians have used food and its associative practices in a wide variety of ways …

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Lebanon Catholics & Cultures

WEBLebanon, which straddles a 200 km strip of coastal cities, snow-capped mountains and agricultural valleys along the Eastern Mediterranean, is home to the largest …

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Chile Catholics & Cultures

WEBChile. Though 72 percent of its population is Catholic, Chile looks at many times to be quite secular, and at other times quite Catholic. Spontaneous shrines, often markers of a …

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Philippines Catholics & Cultures

WEBThe third-largest Catholic population in the world is found in the Philippines, where Catholic practice is fervent and wide-ranging. The Philippines comprise more than 2,000 …

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Morocco Catholics & Cultures

WEBThe Kingdom of Morocco is located in the north westernmost tip of Africa, South of Spain, across a narrow strip of the Mediterranean. At approximately 172,400 square miles, …

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Luxembourg Catholics & Cultures

WEB1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition. 2 United Nations, …

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Eswatini Catholics & Cultures

WEBSearch. Catholics & Cultures is an initiative of the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture. College of the Holy Cross • One College Street • …

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Simbang Gabi, pre-dawn Masses, prepare for Christmas in …

WEBThe Simbang Gabi tradition grew out of a practice brought by the Spaniards, who held Masses known as Misas de Aguinaldo or Misas de Gallo in December in the pre-dawn …

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Bhutan Catholics & Cultures

WEBSearch. Catholics & Cultures is an initiative of the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture. College of the Holy Cross • One College Street • …

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Tanzania's political icon Julius Nyerere spread modern Catholic …

WEBJulius Nyerere is most famous for his envisioning and implementation of ujamaa (familyhood) socialism in the late 1960s and 1970s. Here Nyerere attempted to marry …

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Pew survey on Christian attitudes and beliefs in Tanzania

WEBA survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, “Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa,” sheds light on a number of aspects Tanzanian …

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