Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Catholic penitent performs self-flagellation on the street on Good Friday. These acts of self-flagellation are a feature of ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalis on Thursday marked the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday with a government-declared public holiday, reviving an old tradition of merriment once banned by extremist ...

SAN MIGUEL ESCOBAR, Guatemala (AP) — The hefty velvet cloaks, finely embroidered with gold thread will cover the wooden Virgin Mary and Christ figures carried by the faithful down cobblestone streets ...

Authorities on Sunday tightened a month-long security lockdown in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar after breaking up religious processions by Shiite Muslims who defied a ban. A military ...

In a vivid display of religio-political one-upmanship, Sikh religious organisations and the governments of Punjab and Haryana are holding multiple religious processions (nagar kirtans) to commemorate ...

On the eve of Mahashivratri, a grand religious procession was taken out in Jammu city marking the beginning of the holy festival with religious fervour and enthusiasm. Taken out under the patronage of ...