Nun who saved Jews in WWII is beatified
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A Hungarian nun who helped save the lives of dozens of Jews during World War II was beatified Sunday in a Mass attended by thousands.
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Relatives of one of the most contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era are hoping that archives they turned over will clear the name of the man both praised and vilified for bargaining with the Nazis for the lives of Jews.
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Special to the Journal-World. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize is remembered fondly by the nuns who taught her in Atchison.
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The ritual baths that Jewish women take to fulfill purity requirements are getting a makeover
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Never one to shrink from criticism, Pope John Paul is again putting controversial figures on the road to sainthood, including Austria's last emperor and a mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson's film on Christ's ...
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A huge crowd attended a mass  with Pope Benedict on Sunday as the Pontiff prepared to visit  the Auschwitz death camp to pray for peace as Catholic leader  and a &quot;son of Germany.&quot;
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Poland's parliament declared a 97-year-old woman a national heroine on Wednesday for saving more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust during World War Two.
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JERUSALEM - Pop diva Madonna made a midnight pilgrimage to a Jerusalem cemetery early Sunday, holding a mystical candlelit ceremony at the grave of a Jewish sage. The singer is in Israel on a five-day spiritual quest along with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism...
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The Pope has praised an Italian nun who forgave her killers as she lay dying after an attack in Somalia.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 25 -- As Lea Ingel waited at John F. Kennedy International Airport, she was not sure what she would say when she was reunited with the Catholic woman whose family sheltered her on their Lithuania farm during the Holocaust.
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DRESDEN, Germany  - A trio of students will be   confirmed as rabbis this week, the first such ordination in   Germany since the Nazi regime began the slaughter of six   million European Jews more than 60 years ago.
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A Kabbalah Centre leader who is also Madonna's spiritual adviser says Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves.
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Advancing the sainthood causes of five Europeans, Pope John Paul II beatified the last Hapsburg emperor and the nun whose visions inspired Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion of the Christ." The pope said Blessed ...
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Nuns of Mother Teresa's order marked the seventh anniversary of her death with special prayers for the children who died in Russia's school hostage crisis.
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The Vatican staged its largest mass beatification ceremony ever Sunday, putting 498 victims of religious persecution before and during Spain's civil war on the path to possible sainthood.
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Never one to shrink from  criticism, Pope John Paul is again putting controversial  figures on the road to sainthood, including Austria's last  emperor and a mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson's film on  Christ's passion.
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The 19th-century mystic nun who inspired some of the more controversial scenes of Mel Gibson&#39;s hit movie, &quot;The Passion of the Christ,&quot; was beatified yesterday by Pope John Paul II.