traditions
Celebrating Hanukkah where the dominant winter holiday isn’t Christmas
By Lauren Markoe — December 12, 2017
(RNS) — Hanukkah in the Holy Land gives Jews who have immigrated to Israel a sense of belonging they don’t feel anywhere else.
In Greece, the evil eye is trending
By Jenny Lower — September 21, 2017
ATHENS, Greece (RNS) — The growing popularity of the mati, the 'all-seeing eyeball,' appears to reflect a growing interest in New Age spirituality as well as the psychological toll of Greece’s ongoing debt crisis.
Rice and chicken: Bringing Nigerian Christmas to the US
By Kimberly Winston — December 21, 2016
(RNS) Nigerian-American author Okey Ndibe recalls how, during a civil war, his family plowed all of its available resources into a single meal of rice and -- that rarest of treats -- chicken.
Thousands visit human remains of youngest Catholic saint near Chicago
By Reuters — October 15, 2015
ORLAND PARK, Ill. (Reuters) The skeleton of Maria Goretti, an 11-year-old girl who was stabbed to death during an attempted rape in 1902, was encased in a wax statue lying inside a clear glass coffin. Viewers waited for hours to approach the display, and many were moved to tears.
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