Nepal, Feb. 16 -- Izumi Miyazaki, Governor of Wakayama Prefecture, visited Lumbini on Sunday, describing it as an inspiring example of peace building and international cultural cooperation. He said he ...

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer,” the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil wrote.

Fort Worth Metroplex and as far as Wisconsin to welcome the monks back to Fort Worth after 112 days on the road.

The 19 Buddhist monks embarked on the Walk for Peace, a long-distance pilgrimage to promote peace, compassion, loving kindness, and nonviolence.

Lunar New Year is a widely celebrated cultural and religious festival observed across Asia and worldwide. Marking the start ...

A Buddhist monk has drawn international attention after South Korea won landmark Olympic snowboard medals, capping decades of ...

A dozen days have passed since Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her Tucson-area home. Tension between law enforcement agencies ...

The idea that you are only one religion is very North Atlantic,’ said religion sociologist Gustavo Morello. (RNS) — The number of Latin Americans who say they are not affiliated with a religion has ...

A dozen days have passed since Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her Tucson-area home. Hundreds of law enforcement officers have joined the search.

Thousands of onlookers gathered at Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday to see and hear from the Buddhist monks who have ...

A group of Buddhist monks walked from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., in the name of peace. The 108-day pilgrimage ...

When praying at a Shintō shrine, it is customary to bow twice, clap twice, and then bow once more at the conclusion of one’s invocation—nirei, nihakushu, ichirei in Japanese. By contrast, the accepted ...