A total of about 20,000 "hina" dolls will decorate various locations in this eastern Japan city during the Katsuura Big Hina Matsur･･･ ...

The Nakasendo road still exists in its entirety - as do dozens of the post towns it weaves between - and can form an epic ...

USA, Oita — There are about 40,000 Shinto shrines that are called “Hachimansha” or “Hachimangu” in Japan. These are headed by Usa Jingu shrine in Usa, Oita Prefecture, which will celebrate the 1,300th ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The nativity scene inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Northern Liberties has been a fixture every Christmas season for the past several decades. Church ...

For 75 years, the 10-acre Pacific Palisades property has been a sanctuary for people of all faiths. Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old ...

Tales of the miraculous have always encircled the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine. The story of its 1950 founding goes that the spiritual guru Paramahansa Yogananda purchased the 10-acre ...

A religious shrine, believed to have been sealed by the ancestors of Jesus and preserved for nearly 3,000 years, has been uncovered in Jerusalem, according to a report by the New York Post. The shrine ...

At least 40 shrines (mazar, sufi graveyards, dargahs) in the country have been targeted in 44 incidents of attack since August 4 last year, the government has said, citing police reports.

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AP) -- Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to ...

A scantily clad shrine parishioner throws icy cold water ... 2025, a traditional Japanese way of purifying soul and praying for their health in the new year. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) ...