In some South African cultures, when burying a twin, his sibling is supposed to enter the grave to allegedly help prepare ...

The idea of the flesh as our enemy includes any desire to simply indulge what feels good to us, with no reference to how that ...

I am not a doctor and indeed have no medical expertise. But I imagine there are few people in my position—an American, a ...

Our members in Japan are scared. They’re apologizing for something they didn’t do. They are worried that their families will ...

India Post’s initiative to commemorate influential historical and spiritual figures through postage stamps plays a vital role in preserving the rich cultural heritage of India.

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

Catholics around the world celebrated the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, a date that marks the moment when the Virgin Mary, with faith and obedience, accepted the divine call to become the ...

Hermeticism is a philosophical and esoteric system based on the teachings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a mythical ...

Filmmakers like Andrei Tarkovsky, Theo Angelopoulos, Béla Tarr, and Ingmar Bergman elevated their movies into profound meditations on humanity and its myriad spiritual ways of interacting with the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A doctor who has treated respiratory infections in the elderly for decades on Tuesday said he thinks that ...

The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the Himalayan ...

Many actions that help start a cascade of positive emotions are often part of spiritual teachings, from working at a soup kitchen with your local parish to donating a portion of your recent ...