On each of the nine mornings leading up to Christmas, Filipino Catholics gather in the pre-dawn hours for Simbang Gabi, a novena of Masses that anticipates the celebration of Christmas. Churches are generally filled out the doors.
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Christmas in the Philippines, Filipinos like to say, stretches longer than anywhere else in the world, from September to January with carols and gift-giving, novenas and Masses, feasts and processions.
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With more than 80 million Catholics, the Philippines is home to the third largest Catholic population in the world. While the country's 2,000 inhabited islands offer a broad range of Catholic practices, Filipinos stand out for their devotional fervor.
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Given that Jordan is a Muslim country, Friday is the country’s normal day of worship, and Sunday is a normal day of work.
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Perhaps as a result of their experience as urban singles, young adults in Amman have organized a youth group centered at St. George’s Cathedral in Amman and meet at least once a week for meals and fellowship.
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A survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life highlights a number of aspects of Ugandan culture.
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Many churches feature images of the Uganda Martyrs, but aside from that the imagery of Catholicism in statues and pictures tends to be very European, usually in a 19th-century devotional style.
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Following Vatican Council II, efforts were made to bring indigenous music into the liturgy, and this seems to have been quite successful, even as the liturgy itself is not indigenized.
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Ugandan worship comprises a range of styles, incorporating more solemn and traditionally European Catholic, more celebratory and traditionally African, and Pentecostal characteristics. Often one can see all of these in a single liturgy.
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Migration is an extraordinarily important theme of Irish life, from even before the massive flight during the Irish Potato Famine. Outward migration continued through the 1970s, but a new phenomenon has overshadowed it and begun to change the country.