"They stole children from other towns and sacrificed them in front of her (Santa Muerte) when they wanted to land a big hit," ...

Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to ...

Like Mexico, Ecuador is a largely Catholic country, and the Church condemns the practice of portraying death as a personality like in the case of Santa Muerte. However, most Ecuadorans have no ...

SVD priestly ordination. Five deacons of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), class “Koinonia” will be ordained priests on Feb. 8 at 9 in the morning at the Divine Word Seminary Chapel, Tagaytay City ...

An ancient culture that lived on the coast of Ecuador buried a young ... leading into forgotten 400-year-old vault unearthed at church in France →300 years ago, ships made remarkable journey ...

Crockett, who died in a 2016 earthquake in Ecuador at the age of 33, is now titled “servant of God,” the first step in the Catholic Church’s path to sainthood. More than 100 people traveled ...

Inside the Hacienda we have a beautiful baroque church, where we want to enthrone all the most representative images of Venezuela and Ecuador. Venezuelan virgins, virgins of Ecuador and also to ...

The burial of a young woman, possibly as young as 17, was identified as “burial 10” and dated to between 771 and 953 A.D., according to the study. Fetal cranial fragments were found near her pelvis, ...

She was just 33 when she died in Ecuador in April 2016 ... beatification of Sister Clare was scheduled to take place in the Cathedral of Alcala de Henares in Madrid at 4.30pm UK time.

In November, Sr Clare was declared a Servant of God by the Catholic Church - the first step towards becoming a saint. The ceremony, which recognised Sr Clare as a candidate for sainthood, was held in ...