The Konomiya Naked Festival, known as a bizarre festival, was held at Konomiya Jinja shrine in the city of Inazawa, Aichi ...

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In many middle-income countries, majorities say the Bible, Quran or another religious text should influence national law at ...

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Ise-Shima National Park, which spans more than 554sq km, makes up the bulk of the region and is home to 125 Shinto shrines. But the most sacred is Ise Jingu, which is considered the country’s ...

The Kumano Kodo, a sacred route for over 1,000 years ... rebirth – however undignified the spectacle. Followers of Shintoism, Japan’s indigenous religion, worship Kami – gods believed ...

Scammers are preying on job seekers again with appealing, but too good-to-be-true offers. These phoney job ads are sent via text and WhatsApp, and claim to offer lots of money to complete tasks in ...

But even it specifies the children of Jacob, not Ishmael, as considering every life sacred. And what drives this hostage deal is that, for Jacob, every person is a unique child of God, made in His ...