The girls were crying because, they reported, the Virgin was in tears too, Garuka says ... and prayed to an icon of Mary on the wall that was claimed to have once wept tears of oil.

“Only through the prayers of our people, if we are close to Jesus and Mary, will we truly achieve independence.” The post On this remote isle, an icon of the Virgin Mary has endured the flames ...

AKITA--Just as suddenly as it started, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary abruptly stopped shedding tears, leaving the sisters and nuns at a Catholic church here without an explanation. From the ...