Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: St. Peter's Basilica is seen from Pincio Terrace the day after the death of former Pope Benedict, in Rome VATICAN CITY ...

White sage, which is sacred to a number of Native American tribes in the southwest United States, has been adopted by both some contemporary Pagans and New Age practitioners for purification rites. As ...

A man was allegedly filmed urinating on the Altar of the Confession in St. Peter’s Basilica as hundreds looked on, prompting Pope Leo to order a purification rite. The man reportedly bypassed barriers ...

Jitu Munda underwent a community purification ritual after exhuming his sister's skeletal remains to withdraw her bank deposits. This ritual, involving sacrifices and a feast, allowed him to rejoin ...

John Paul's call for the "the purification of the historical memory" is one of his papacy's central themes. By 1998, as Luigi Accattoli wrote in When a Pope Asks Forgiveness, John Paul had ...

Crown Prince of Benin Kingdom and Ediaken N’ Uselu, Prince Eheneden Erediauwa, has begun the rites of his passage of his father, Omon N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa, the Oba of Benin.

(The Conversation) — Native Americans are struggling to find sage for their spiritual practices as the plant is being overharvested for sale to the wider public. (The Conversation) — White sage, which ...

VATICAN CITY -- A special purification rite was held at the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday after it was desecrated by a man who stood on it naked to protest against the war in Ukraine.