Against this backdrop, a document from the era, now preserved at the Telangana State Archives and Research Institute (TSARI), sheds light on how religious autonomy was accorded to pilgrims ...

Thousands of people from more than 90 countries gathered in Rome this week to celebrate the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of People with Disabilities. Wheelchairs rolled across cobblestones and ...

This group of cicadas, Brood XIV, is sometime's known as the Pilgrim's Brood because the emergence ... These 2 ticks can make you very sick. North America faces a sprawling 'pollinator crisis ...

The paid sick leave laws are set to kick in Thursday in Missouri, July 1 in Alaska and Oct. 1 in Nebraska. McDonald’s restaurant worker Richard Eiker is among those who stand to benefit.

(AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a voter-approved ballot measure gradually raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour and requiring employers to provide paid sick leave ...

Some 1,500 Catholic pilgrims gathered in the Chilean city of Colina on Sunday for a traditional festival held on the first Sunday after Easter. (AP video shot by Alexandre Plaza) A stunning ...

Across Vatican City on Saturday morning, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets, spilling outside the city walls into Rome, to mourn Pope Francis as his funeral took place at St. Peter ...

Millions prepare to visit Mecca as annual Hajj pilgrimage set to begin in a few weeks As pilgrims embark on the Hajj, it is essential for them to be familiar with the special parts of the Kaaba.

Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfik Al Rabiah added in an address at the UK-based Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies that Saudi Arabia had launched several initiatives to give the pilgrims access to ...

Pope Francis has chosen “Pilgrims of Hope” as the theme for this Jubilee Year ... In early 1956, Bergoglio entered the Inmaculada Concepcion diocesan seminary but was laid sick with Asian flu 18 ...

Among the more than 250,000 people who made their way to the Vatican this week were the nocturnal pilgrims wanting to catch a final glimpse of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica before his ...

I prayed one of the Missal prayers “for a pope” with pilgrims who had come just for Francis; I met others who were here for the now-postponed canonization of Carlo Acutis that had been ...