Millions of Hindu devotees are bathing in sacred waters as the world’s biggest religious gathering begins in India’s northern ...

In the great religions of Asia, there are female images of compassion ... At the end of the day of prayer, fasting, and pilgrimage for peace with leaders of the world religions at Assisi, Pope John ...

An adviser to the festival, who requested anonymity, said that in the early hours of Wednesday a crowd broke through a ...

Millions of devout Muslims from around the world participate in a pilgrimage ... prophet Mohammed and the cradle of Islam. A fierce religious identity dominates the Sunni-majority nation, with ...

Asclepius is often portrayed in some ways similar to Zeus as this great, old bearded god ... and some of the other new religions of the Greco-Roman world, was a portable cult.

A great synthesist ... Clues to what may have been the world’s first organized religion are scattered throughout Neolithic sites in southern Turkey, northern Syria, and Iraq.

For one thing the Roman world was not uniform in its religious beliefs. There were lots of new religions that had come in between the time of the conquest of the Alexander the Great down to the ...

This series of animations explores the different religions of the world and their well-known stories. The animation is bright and colourful, and immerses pupils in the story through a clear ...

A resolution has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, recognizing Islam as one of the great religions of the world. The resolution was introduced by Congressman Al Green, a Democrat ...

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