At Mount Sinai, seven weeks (hence, the holiday’s alternative name, “Feast of Weeks”) after leaving Egypt, the Israelites made a covenant with God, pledging to live by His laws.

SHAVUOT, ONE of the three pilgrimage festivals, marked the wheat harvest in biblical Israel. It concludes the seven-week period beginning at Passover© (photo credit: MIRI TZAHI/MAARIV) ...

Pentecost, also called “Whitsunday” in many other Christian denominations, corresponds to Jewish feast of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks). In Greece, Pentecost is one of the “Great Christian Feasts” of ...

We can find the original instructions for the celebration of this feast in Leviticus 23 alongside the other appointed festivals. It was also called the Feast of Weeks and Shavuot, celebrating God ...

The U.S. bishops’ annual Religious Freedom Week has a liturgical setting. Beginning on June 22, the feast of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More, the week includes the Nativity of St. John the ...

Thousands of Israeli Jews poured into old Jerusalem today to celebrate Shavuot at the Wailing Wall, the holiest of Judaism’s shrines, for the first time in 19 years.

Marian feast days have developed over the centuries, often with local customs or historical events taking on wider significance. Consider the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, now set for Sept. 12.

In many parts of the world, Friday may simply mark the end of a busy workweek or the start of a relaxing weekend. But for Muslims, Friday holds a unique ...

Pope Sixtus V later reestablished the feast in 1585, and it is still celebrated today, commemorating the faith of her parents, Joachim and Anne, and the purity of Mary.

Belagavi: The annual feast of St Anthony's Church at Camp, Belagavi, was celebrated with great devotion and fervour on Friday evening, drawing scores .