Every May, a colourful procession wends its way through an Italian seaside town, pausing at its harbour to remember the day ...

Hundreds of pilgrims from across the Diocese of East Anglia gathered at Walsingham on May 4 to celebrate their annual ...

It’s often said that every Japanese person hopes to visit Ise Jingu—Japan’s most sacred Shintō shrine—at least once in a lifetime. That time may be now. The shrine has just entered Shikinen Sengu, a ...

England’s Nazareth welcomes groups from the Tamil and Filipino communities, Irish Travellers and the Union of Catholic Mothers to Anglicans, Orthodox, Hindus (who also revere the Virgin Mary), and ...

Jongmyo is the oldest and most authentic of the Confucian royal shrines to have been preserved. Dedicated to the forefathers of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), the shrine has existed in its present ...

The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present ...