Lunar New Year festivals and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and the world.

From public parades to traditional dances, here's how countries around the world are celebrating the Year of the Snake.

On January 31st, 1961, a debate between Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Yaakov Herzog, and the historian Arnold Toynbee, took ...

Magha Amavasya, also known as Mauni Amavasya, is celebrated. This festival involves practices like maintaining silence, ...

According to the Hindu calendar, it occurs on the Amavasya (New Moon day) in the month of Magha ... in the Ganges or any ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40-day period in which Christians worldwide observe a period of reflection, prayer ...

First, we should consider what churches mean when they say the phrase “Come as you are.” This phrase communicates that people ...

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Columnist: "Knowing some answers could help us live better lives while we are here on Earth. Regrets are always painful here ...

The early 2000s was a crazy, weird time of defeating dystopias with karate, sending texts via Microsoft Excel, and ignoring your pets so you could look at jpegs of pets. As its adverts might have ...

Psalm 8: 8 "The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas." ...

Holy Saturday marks the end of the Lenten season on April 19, it is a time to mourn the death of Jesus and to prepare for his ...