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Palm Sunday marks the start of Holy Week and the last week of the 40 days of Lent, and is one of the most important feast days for Christians around the world. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Palm Sunday celebrated by Christians across the country

Christians mark the beginning of the Holy Week by celebrating Palm Sunday.

15 April 2019 6:01 PM IST

Though the cross of Christ is the most popular symbol of Christianity, it ironically signifies not tragedy but triumph, not death but new life.

Mystic Mantra: Razed, yet arisen

Sad as it may seem, these images strikingly capture the essence of Easter and Christianity.

2 May 2019 1:27 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Thomas' way to belief in Jesus

Thomas' experience of the risen Jesus eventually led him to his martyrdom, believed to have taken place in Tamil Nadu.

3 July 2019 1:04 AM IST

Indians -- or at least the Indian Chappaterati -- are keen on whiskies and think they can speak knowledgeably about them. (Representational Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of white wines & single malts: The snobbery over...

I never became a whisky connoisseur and will never pretend to be one. Wines? In a half-educated pretentious way? Maybe!

7 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Wherefore fasting?

The spiritual masters, however, have been telling us since ages that fasting does even greater marvels to one's soul.

15 March 2018 1:45 AM IST

Astronomer David Hughes spent years studying the Biblical tales of the star from an astronomical perspective. (Representational image)

Beyond belief

That brings us to the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah, where divine vengeance wiped out these sinful cities in a rain of...

25 Dec 2018 6:31 AM IST

Pupils were then asked to smash up chocolate versions of St Nicholas and his reindeer to hammer home the point. (Photo: AP)

Grinch steals Christmas: Charity worker tells children Santa Claus is...

Woman delivering assembly was trying to explain to children Jesus was reason behind Christmas, not Santa.

7 Dec 2018 11:40 AM IST

A Wiccan prayer meeting

Welcoming the new

The Wiccan community in the city is getting together to celebrate the onset of spring with Ostara.

24 March 2018 12:49 AM IST

Christians participate in a prayer meeting to observe Good Friday at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Christians observe Good Friday with prayers

Services are performed in churches in the evening where Christ's death is remembered with hymns.

31 March 2018 5:43 AM IST

Accounts of the Gospel state that He was put to death after he was betrayed by Judas and the date falls during Holy Week on the Friday before Easter Sunday. (Photo: Pixabay)

10 things you probably did not know about Good Friday

The earliest known use of "Guode Friday" is found in The South English Legendary, a text from around 1290.

30 March 2018 9:38 AM IST

The article says scenes of the crucifixion contrast the power and control of the Romans against the forced submission of their prisoner, while hinting at further sexual violence in store. (Photo: Pixabay)

Christ was victim of sexual abuse when he was stripped for...

Stripping was a deliberate action used by the Romans to humiliate and degrade those they wished to punish.

27 March 2018 9:50 AM IST

Pope Francis. (Photo: AP)

Mystic Mantra: An ecumenical pilgrimage

True ecumenism demands not only respecting religious differences among us but promoting them.

27 Jun 2018 2:46 AM IST