Religious Devotion News Today

Millions of Filipinos swarmed a historic statue of Jesus Christ as it was pulled through Manila on Tuesday in one of the world’s biggest displays of religious devotion.

'While the teachers are detained, the classrooms will be closed,' reads one artist's painting on a wall. Khiaban Tribune via InstagramA recent rise in activism in Iran has added a new chapter to the country’s long-standing history of murals and other public art. But as the sentiments being expressed in those works have changed, the government’s view of them has shifted, too. The ancient Persians, who lived in what is now Iran, adorned their palaces, temples and tombs...