The morning trade at Ryozen-ji temple is always brisk. It’s just after nine and pilgrims are stocking up on essential items: wooden staffs, conical sedge hats, guidebooks, brass bells, zodiac ...

Tragedy occurred in Lagos State, when a Pastor, Magistrate Olasanmi Ogunkanmi, 58, suddenly, slumped and died the night after returning from a three-week holy pilgrimage in Jerusalem, Israel.

Marks the beginning of the Mahakumbh pilgrimage. Devotees gather for the first major snan to purify their souls and start their spiritual journey. An auspicious day for bathing, symbolizing the ...

"You shall treat this fiftieth year as sacred. You shall proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to your own property, each ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Shiite pilgrims pray at the golden twin-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhimduring during their annual ...

As our father lay semi-comatose in the hospital, his distraught family did the best they could. No time for any emotions, we took care of him, fetching medicines the doctors ordered, moving him ...

The Surf Ballroom and Museum in Clear Lake, Iowa, is still rockin’ more than 90 years after it opened. The concert venue is renowned as the last place Lubbock native son Buddy Holly played ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Central America for his first trip as the top US diplomat. Rubio is expected to depart late next week for Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica ...

A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. By Jennifer Szalai It’s among the more playful matters on his ...

The man said he knows it "may sound childish," but the trip was only supposed to be for him and his platonic female friend Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...

There’s nothing like a road trip to create some forced proximity for characters, which is exactly what happens in Seattle author Heather McBreen’s debut novel, “Wedding Dashers” (out Jan ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. By A.O ...