A town in southeastern Spain has enacted a ban that prohibits religious gatherings from taking place at public sports centers, a move that has been criticized by the Spanish government. This is ...

Epiphany is celebrated on 6 January: a religious festivity that, as often happens, has also developed its own profane declination over time. Just as the birth of Jesus, on 25 December, was later ...

DELHI, India (RNS) — Kumbh Mela, a festival that every 12 years draws hundreds of thousands of devotees to the city of Prayagraj, in northern India, has become the latest battleground for ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the capital Thursday to celebrate an annual religious festival distinguished by the lighting of bonfires according to the beliefs of ...

Up on the high plains of the Atacama Desert, Chile's largest religious festival brings tens of thousands of worshippers together for a Catholic celebration with a twist. Up on the high plains of the ...

Unruly and aggressive religious celebrations are damaging ethnic harmony in the multi-ethnic region - and reminding some of the dangerous atmosphere of the 1990s. The Mayor of Novi Pazar, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hindu devotees gather ahead of the second sacred bathing ritual, or 'Shahi Snan', during the Kumbh Mela festival at Sangam, the ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the capital Thursday to celebrate an annual religious festival distinguished by the lighting of bonfires according to the beliefs of ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — “The importance of the celebration of Meskel to Ethiopians is to have us reflect on the idea of peace," said Berhanu Admass, a church deacon. “This is to have us embrace ...