The caretaker of the historic Manhattan cathedral that burned down on Sunday may be to blame for the blaze — for failing to put out all of the candles that were lit for Orthodox Easter, sources said.

Inside Greece’s Orthodox churches, candles are a symbol of faith and simplicity, slender and traditionally made of beeswax, and placed in large candleholders filled with sand. Outside, buyers are ...

Every week, Marta Hernández walks to Madrid’s San Andres church and lights a candle for St. Isidro. Most of the time, the 75-year-old prays for the health of her children and grandchildren. Every now ...

Not far from Puget Sound, at St. Mark Church in Shoreline, Washington, Mike Scarpelli regularly lights a five- or seven-day votive candle by the Sacred Heart statue and another votive candle before ...

WASHINGTON — Thousands of Christians across more than 20 countries will light red candles on Christmas Eve – a new symbol of solidarity with Palestinian Christians, culminating a grassroots movement ...

Joe Krivanek lights a candle in late June at St. Mary’s Church in Albany, N.Y. (Credit: Emily Benson/The Evangelist via CNS.) Listen WESTMERE, New York — Linda Brown approached the candle stand at her ...