Influential Dutch studio MVRDV has been chosen to radically renovate a disused church. The former place of worship is being transformed into a public swimming pool, complete with a movable floor that ...

Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk, a small bottle of holy water, and the words for the house blessing so that each family can bless their home. A chalk home blessing ...

After the Christmas season and before Lent, Orthodox priests have – for centuries – rushed to visit church members' homes to bless them with prayers and splashes of holy water flung about with a ...

An Indiana University fan sprinkled holy water on the field before the Big Ten championship game. The water came from a well at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center in Bloomington. This water is ...

There may be a gift and a curse to holy water. According to a new study by researchers at the Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna, water samples in Austria ...