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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.

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.

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.

Knock is the largest Catholic shrine in Ireland, a pilgrimage venue that in a limited way takes it place alongside Lourdes and Fatima.

Whereas many aspects of Catholic attachment and practice are declining in Ireland, no aspect of Catholic practice seems as vital as the Irish wake and funeral.

Priests and parishioners at some Dublin parishes estimate that as few as 2-7% of parishioners attend on any given weekend. This was said to be especially true in working poor neighborhoods.