George Harrison Xanthis, who plays the apostle John, says that filming in Matera has helped his performance by immersing him ...

Each logged a few steps with the Cross before passing it off to another to commemorate the death of Jesus Christ. According to the Biblical account, Christ was required to carry his own cross to ...

In Spain, about a million people have participated in the annual pilgrimage honoring the Rocío Virgin, a Catholic icon of the ...

As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross. Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and ...

Their faces, hats and flamenco dresses caked in dust, hundreds of pilgrims gathered around an ox-driven carriage with their ...

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims slogged for days under a punishing sun through country roads, sandy paths, even a ...

Walter Masters, a resident of San Angelo, Texas, has been carrying a cross across the United States for the past 25 years.

in a procession re-enacting Jesus Christ's carrying of the cross. It was the first year for a small group. Forty-one years later, Leon again participated in the annual procession. With him were ...

Hidden Christians were forced to hide all visible signs of their religion after the 1614 ban on Christianity and the ...