Built in 1920, this revered Shinto shrine in Tokyo sees around 3 million visitors every year. Despite this, it's an oasis of ...

A horse-led march is heralding the arrival of spring in a traditional Shinto festival in the disaster-hit Noto Peninsula, central Japan.

In the retrospective of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the NGV, we can see an aesthetic corpus grappling with the ...

Visiting a shrine is an enriching experience to have in Japan, but there's one shrine etiquette rule that too many tourists ...

Throughout the day Oh, dear God, May I not have thrown away the Top to the sour cream. Dear Lord, Look at all those ants. Oh, Christ, I was just about to sign out For the day, And now somebody ...

JERUSALEM — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by ...

The pope "spent about 20 minutes in prayer in his chapel on the 10th floor apartment and the rest of the day alternated between rest, physiotherapy, prayer and a bit of work," the Vatican said.

This prayer of Ireland's patron saint has come down through the centuries and remains popular today and we think you'll agree it's more relevant than ever. St. Patrick's Breastplate is a ...

On Tuesday, an interreligious prayer service was held for Pope Francis at the Mahabodhi Buddhist temple, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he visited in 2015. During that trip, Francis became only the ...

The prayer evoked the 2005 vigils when St. John Paul II was dying in the Apostolic Palace, but those on hand said they were praying for Francis' recovery. Standing on the same stage where Francis ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Vatican No. 2 led faithful in a somber night-time prayer on Monday as Pope Francis continued to battle ...