Holy Week sees thousands of Latinos on pilgrimage

+ tax cuts slashed charitable giving to higher ed US Edition - Today's top story: An annual pilgrimage during Holy Week brings thousands of believers to Santuario de Chimayó in New Mexico, where they pray for healing and protection [View in browser]( US Edition | 26 March 2024 [The Conversation] [The Conversation]( Top headlines - [How the ‘deep state’ actually works]( - [Using AI and a card game to predict catastrophe]( - [For less anxious workers, give them more job flexibility]( Lead story With the start of Holy Week – the most important tradition for many Christians – thousands of Catholics from northern New Mexico will walk on a pilgrimage to the Santuario de Chimayó, a church in the village of Chimayó, New Mexico, to mark Good Friday. There they will take the dirt, or pocito, from a room adjacent to the church’s central worship space and rub it on their bodies to benefit from its supposed miraculous healing properties. The power attributed to this dirt lies in the legend around a crucifix found in the spot, which is also part of the origin story of the church. The story of the pilgrimage is fascinating, but as scholar Brett Hendrickson, who participated in an annual pilgrimage as part of his research, writes, it is not “merely a curiosity”: As the U.S. Catholic Church becomes majority-Latino, [this pilgrimage signals a larger demographic shift in the nation](. [[The latest from the the world of philanthropy and nonprofits. Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Giving Today.](] Kalpana Jain Senior Religion + Ethics Editor/ Director of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative Today's newsletter supported by [readers like you.]( Thousands of Catholics travel by foot to Santuario de Chimayo, in northern New Mexico, during an annual Good Friday pilgrimage. AP Photo/Morgan Lee [An annual pilgrimage during Holy Week brings thousands of believers to Santuario de Chimayó in New Mexico, where they pray for healing and protection]( Brett Hendrickson, Lafayette College Hundreds of thousands of visitors come to the Santuario de Chimayó throughout the year, but the pilgrimage during the week before the celebration of Easter is the high point. Economy + Business - [Not having job flexibility or security can leave workers feeling depressed, anxious and hopeless]( Monica Wang, Boston University The way jobs are structured affects employee mental health, an analysis of more than 18,000 workers shows. - [Trump-era tax cuts contributed to a decline in higher ed giving, with fewer Americans donating to colleges and universities]( Jin Lee, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Researchers who analyzed a decade of data detected a reduction in giving after millions of Americans stopped getting a tax break tied to charitable giving. 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