The Catholic Church held what is being termed as the first online pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Earlier this spring, for the first time in its 162-year existence the ...

Becket’s shrine in Canterbury Cathedral — was destroyed by King Henry VIII in 1538, to this day pilgrims walk along that ...

Take a virtual pilgrimage to the holiest places in Christianity this Easter and re-trace the Biblical steps of Jesus Christ. "The holiest day in the Christian calendar started right here at the Holy ...

A historian weighs in on how the medieval tradition can shape the days leading up to Easter. One of my pet peeves is receiving an email during the latter part of Lent with the sign-off “Happy Easter!” ...

Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the ...

Each year, millions of people from different faiths make religious journeys. They travel far, to Mecca, Jerusalem, the Ganges River or Lourdes, France, to walk the paths of prophets, saints and ...

The Bandra Feast is fifteen days of prayer, devotions, and fun-filled commercial activity in an upmarket suburb of India's commercial capital Mumbai. The event is annual, and draws people of every ...

On the weekend on which the Catholic Church celebrates Pentecost — remembering how, filled with the Holy Spirit, the first disciples left the Upper Room, where Jesus had celebrated the first Eucharist ...

Organizers were thrilled that the rain let up Sunday afternoon just in time for their local civil rights pilgrimage. This pilgrimage, organized by a group of Columbia churchgoers, took visitors on a ...

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