The Catholic Church held what is being termed as the first online pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Earlier this spring, for the first time in its 162-year existence the ...

AMMAN, Jordan — In a war-torn Holy Land riven by interreligious divisions, more and more people are turning to Jordan’s replica of the Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine in France that stands as a bastion of ...

Each year, millions of people from different faiths make religious journeys. They travel far, to Mecca, Jerusalem, the Ganges River or Lourdes, France, to walk the paths of prophets, saints and ...

“The entire economy of towns such as Lourdes is, in effect, based on pilgrimage,” Reader tells CNBC. Indeed, in 2010 Lourdes’ administrators recorded employment of 30 full-time chaplains, 292 ...

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