Sacred Rites of Passage offers a space to honor and embody life’s transitions, empowering women to embrace change with grace, ...

White sage, which is sacred to a number of Native American tribes in the southwest United States, has been adopted by both some contemporary Pagans and New Age practitioners for purification rites. As ...

One grandchild got out of the car, shoveled dirt on the casket and returned. Then another grandchild got out and did the same. The pair couldn’t stay beside the grave for long. There were too many ...

(RNS) — Religious rituals are sensory encounters. The smell of candles, incense, the taste of wine at Communion or prasad, the blessed food at Hindu worship practices: Each is aimed at involving the ...

On an “augmented” production of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival. Now 147 years on from its founding in 1876, the annual festival of Richard Wagner’s works in the bucolic Bavarian town of Bayreuth is ...

100 years after pandemonium erupted at the Paris premiere of Vaslav Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, the ballet returns to L.A. What a difference a century makes. In 1913, pandemonium erupted at the ...

Dubai: Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims performed the four main rituals of Hajj on Friday in Mecca and Mina, completing a series of sacred rites in a remarkably orderly and tranquil setting, thanks ...

Amavasya holds deep spiritual importance in Hindu traditions. Know its meaning, significance, rituals, and the full list of ...

Water is a scarce commodity in much of Africa, particularly in southern Africa. This is well symbolised in the name of the Botswana national currency, pula (rain). When tragedies like flooding and ...