Candles became important parts of religious ceremony, their lighting used to mark holy days and accompany prayer.
After the planned sneak preview in mid-June, religious services are to resume in time for High Holy Days in September.
Although people bathe every day throughout the festival, there are three especially holy days when bathing brings even greater merit.
The very notion of holidays perpetuates the age-old observation of "holy days".
Group prayers had been allowed once a week and on high holy days such as Ramadan or Christmas in the Terre Haute prison.
Congregations at both places of worship talk about how different races in Butetown would celebrate each other's holy days such as Christmas and Eid.
But, with nearly 1.1 billion Roman Catholics in the world, the Eternal City continues to be a major pilgrimage site for Easter and the holy days leading up to it.
In the midst of all of our busy and noisy lives, these holy days afford us the precious opportunity to slow down and spend some quiet moments in prayer and reflection.
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The theme for the upcoming Thoughts on the Business of Life page in the Oct. 24 issue of FORBES is repentance, partially in honor of the Jewish holy days but also as a nod to the general somber mood the Western World seems to be in right now.
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Over the past two days, the Shiite holy city has been without water and electricity, reports said.
Three days ago, on Holy Thursday, he went to a youth detention center in Rome -- rather than the city's chief cathedral -- and washed the feet of a dozen young detainees.
These days do people really believe that the apostle James, a fisherman from the Holy Land, was buried at Santiago?
Days later Muqtada al-Sadr, the turbulent Shia cleric whose forces this month handed the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala back to the central government's control, echoed the call.
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