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 ...

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday said pilgrimages play an essential role in the life of faith as they help a Christian to be better united to Jesus Christ and discern God’s purpose for us in life. The Holy ...

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 ...

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!” ...

Christian leaders are encouraging pilgrimages to the Holy Land, emphasizing its safety and spiritual significance. Tour operators are seeing an uptick in interest and bookings for pilgrimages, after a ...

Ever since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fully vaccinated folks could safely get back on airplanes, travel is surging. But where will people go, and why? What ...

A conversation with artist Kieran Dodds and academic Christian Gonzalez Ho on their new exhibit, ancient pilgrimage sites, and the church of the future. We tap incessantly at our phones for the same ...

In her early 30s, Rachael Sanborn found herself in a bad relationship and dreaming of an escape to the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a pilgrimage her father had undertaken that had profoundly changed ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This month, each of our four local pastors are writing on a unified topic — their personal Christian pilgrimage. The editor of our weekly religion feature asked the four of us pastors ...

BERLIN (RNS) — A dozen walkers, many of them retirees in wool hats and fleece jackets, gathered in a silent circle in the Grunewald forest, just outside Berlin. “Walk silently through nature and ...