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The Feast of the Three Kings, or the Feast of the Epiphany, is celebrated as a big event among Filipino Catholics every January 6. A time of feasting, visiting, and gift-giving, it officially marks the end of the Christmas celebration in the Philippines before the start of school days for students after a long Christmas vacation. The celebration of Epiphany is also known in the Philippines as Pasko ng Matatanda, the Feast of the Elderly, to honor the senior citizens. In Santa Maria Bulacan, particularly in Barangay San Vicente and Barangay Buenavista, before Mass on January 6, three men

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.

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.

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.

Given that Jordan is a Muslim country, Friday is the country’s normal day of worship, and Sunday is a normal day of work.

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.

A survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life highlights a number of aspects of Ugandan culture.

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.

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.

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.