While crowded Kyoto continues to suffer from overtourism, several of Japan’s ancient and soulful sights on the nearby Kii Peninsula, only an hour away, ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have made a surprising discovery that challenges our understanding of early Christian practices in ...

The Antiquities Authority said that the discovery 'raised new questions' about how women of the time lived, potentially ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

The first archaeological evidence of extreme asceticism practiced by nuns was discovered in Jerusalem. A female skeleton, found wrapped in chains during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities ...

Hi and happy Sunday. This week marked the beginning of Lent, the 40-day season leading into Easter. While many Catholics and ...

A Vietnamese Buddhist monk on a barefoot pilgrimage from his homeland to India has given up on his attempt to walk across ...

A popular Vietnamese monk and his companions have headed to Malaysia from Thailand after they failed to enter war-torn ...

The Ministry of Religious Affairs is set to greet the arrival of 38 Buddhist monks, or Bhante Thudong, to Indonesia, who are ...

SKELETON remains tied in heavy metal chains from 1,500 years ago have been unearthed – and they belonged to a female practising an extreme religious practice. The shocking discovery, made by ...

Columnist Clair McFarland writes, "I’m not blind to the fact that it’s going to snow tomorrow. This warm spell was a ...

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