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When traveling to Japan on vacation, visiting a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple is a must. Just like in a church, knowing ...

A U.N. agency says that a suspected scam call operation and a suspicious network of companies was discovered with links to a new free trade zone in the nation of ...

In Rome, seeing priests, nuns and pilgrims is part of everyday life, but increasingly, they're spotted not just with rosaries ...

A Catholic priest here has given a creative twist to tradition this Onam, crafting a pookkalam (floral carpet) not with flowers, but with stamps. Fr Wilson Puthussery, Vice Principal of AKJM Higher ...

Kolkata: The annual workshop on training priests on how to properly perform the Durga Puja rituals will also focus on organisers of community pujas this year. This is to ensure that they are mindful ...

It was a last-minute trip — 80 years in the making. Three Japanese Shinto priests visited the Long Island Museum of American Armor Tuesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War ...

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Makers of somen noodles in Japan’s western Nara Prefecture have marked the end of this year’s production season with a traditional ceremony at Omiwa Shrine in Sakurai. Around 50 producers and sellers ...