Colorful beads adorn Tracy Aaker's wrist. Green stands for growth, blue for baptism, black for sin and red for Christ's blood. The 34-year-old Fargo woman made the bracelets to symbolize her faith. To ...

Archaeologists said that the beads offered a glimpse into how people expressed their beliefs through objects in the ancient past. Four out of Jesus’s 12 disciples in the New Testament were fishermen.

I received my first rosary when my second grade class at a Catholic school in Baltimore received the sacrament of the first Holy Communion. The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the ...

Think of it as a Fitbit for your spiritual health. One hundred and sixty years before the advent of social media, the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network existed as a network of millions of Catholics from ...

Gloria Renaldo keeps a long strand of brown beads in her pants pocket. Affixed to the bottom of the loop is a cross. This is not a cross she wears, but rather a rosary that she keeps with her to help ...

Prayer beads help us focus our thoughts and get closer to God, writes Ranjeni A Singh A prayer bead is to the faithful what the abacus is to the student; it’s a handy and reassuring tool. “The rosary ...

Walk into many a meditation or yoga studio here in Los Angeles and beyond and you’ll see a treasure-trove of malas, made from all variety of gemstones and crystals. At heart, these prayer beads are a ...

Annually, the Hajj attracts up to two million Muslims from across the globe, making it one of the largest gatherings in the world, if not the largest. This pilgrimage is not only a spiritual milestone ...