The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued its latest report about religious freedom in the United States, and the results are less than stellar. This report is published every year on May 1 and has been since 1999, reported World Religion News.
This year marks 20 years since the…
Japanese authorities denied a man the chance his wish to die a castaway on an island he called home for three decades.
Masafumi Nagasaki was the only inhabitant of the kilometre-wide Sotobanari island but was forced to return to civilisation after being found unwell by police, reported Daily Mail
He lived in solitude since 1989 and…
Dussehra (Vijayadashamiis) a major Hindu festival celebrated at the end of Navratri every year. It is observed on the tenth day in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, the seventh month of the Hindu Luni-Solar Calendar, which typically falls in months of September and October.
This is Bengal. This is…
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Over a thousand people had gathered in the area to witness the burning of Ravana effigies, reports suggest that people started running on the sound of crackers and failed to hear the incoming train whistle, reported “The indian express”
Over 50 people are feared dead and several…
Authorities in India’s most populous state have changed the Muslim name of an historic city to one with Hindu overtones reported Al Jazeera
Allahabad, a city of more than one million people in northern Uttar Pradesh state, will now be known as Prayagraj.
The city, home of India’s…
Religious Turism wants to introduce you the most remarkable monument of Chinese Buddhism in the caves of Mogao. The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 492 temples 25 km in Gansu Province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of…
A bookseller and publisher, Ulysses Travel Guides , has published an interesting guidebook for the province of Quebec, Canada.
A one-of-a-kind guide that reveals an exceptionally rich heritage unequalled anywhere else in North America!
In an era of high-speed technologies and relationships, “wellness” tourism, slow travel and religious tourism are…
Correspondent techcrunch.com reported:
The robotic monk is facing a wall, charging up when I first approach the Longquan Temple’s booth at TechCrunch’s event in Hangzhou, China. There’s probably a good metaphor here for meditation or mindfulness, but as a terrible meditator who semi-regularly runs into objects while his mind is somewhere else entirely,…
Medical personnel check a woman evacuated from her home near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for radiation exposure on March 16, 2011.Asahi Shimbun via EPA
In the wake of Fukushima, Tomonobu Narita is at the forefront of a movement to withdraw money from banks that back environmentally harmful energy projects.
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Dalai Lama, the official app from the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, lets you stay up to date with what His Holiness is doing, his travels, and his teachings. Get official news, videos, and photos from His Holiness’s Office, including live video streams when they are available, reported Dalai Lama’s website.
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