Joe Krivanek lights a candle in late June at St. Mary’s Church in Albany, N.Y. (Credit: Emily Benson/The Evangelist via CNS.) Listen WESTMERE, New York — Linda Brown approached the candle stand at her ...

Not far from Puget Sound, at St. Mark Church in Shoreline, Washington, Mike Scarpelli regularly lights a five- or seven-day votive candle by the Sacred Heart statue and another votive candle before ...

A new smartphone app that lets worshippers remotely light prayer candles in a church from the comfort and safety of their own homes is the latest example of online technologies that have been rapidly ...

Like many other Christians, this year I have lit Chanukah lights all the way up to last night’s eight candle (plus the ...

On Wednesday, around 4,000 people attended Christmas Eve services at Christ Church. These services are open to members as ...

The lack of artificial lighting during the Easter vigil can be a powerful aid to prayer, raising the question of why this practice isn’t done more regularly. Candles flicker in St. Peter’s Basilica at ...

On Sunday, the Humboldt County Chapter of The Compassionate Friends will join with hundreds of organized memorial services around the world for The Compassionate Friends’ 28th annual “Worldwide Candle ...

As a Palestinian-American minister, I've long known that the Bethlehem in Christmas carols bears little resemblance to the occupied West Bank city my family struggles to hold on to Palestinian ...

Every week, Marta Hernández walks to Madrid’s San Andres church and lights a candle for St. Isidro. Most of the time, the 75-year-old prays for the health of her children and grandchildren. Every now ...

“I will light Candles this Christmas,” wrote theologian Howard Thurman in a poem published after his death in 1981. “Candles of joy despite all sadness, candles of hope where despair keeps watch, ...