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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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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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India Catholics & Cultures

WEBIndia. While officially secular, India is one of the most publicly religious countries on the planet. Nearly 80% of the population is Hindu, and Hinduism has made the most evident …

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Mexico 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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Tanzania Catholics & Cultures

WEBWithin a landscape that incorporates the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Zanzibar, and Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania is also remarkable for the peaceful co-existence …

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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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Senegal Catholics & Cultures

WEB7.30 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3. Level of Public Corruption. 64 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4. Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and …

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El Shaddai and the charismatic transformation of Philippine …

WEBEl Shaddai Fellowship Service, Manila, 2016. Observers of Catholic lay movements worldwide typically focus attention on European-centered lay movements founded in the …

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Velankanni Mata, India’s Blessed, and Blessing, Mother

WEBThe shrine’s staff is cautious about ascribing numbers, but broadly estimates that 400,000 to 500,000 pilgrims were present in Velankanni on the opening and closing days of the …

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Obando Feast of the Three Saints and Fertility Dance

WEBThe origins of the feast are uncertain. Obando has been the “town of three saints” since early in its history. Two saints, San Pascual Baylon and Santa Clara, reflect the …

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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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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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