The Kumano Hongu Shrine Spring Festival, held every year from April 13 to 15, is one of the most important Shinto events in ...

The sanctuary of Lourdes, one of the world's most popular Catholic pilgrimage sites, began on Monday to cover up a series of ...

Many women wore "Happi" coats (robes that reach to the hips ... Naruhito Tsunoda, a priest at the shrine, said there had never been a ban on women participating, and some had even made small ...

Dating back to 1400 BC, the Oracle of Delphi was the most important shrine in all Greece ... about the future answered by the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo. And her answers, usually cryptic ...

KUMAGAYA, Saitama Prefecture—Since her inauguration as chief priest of Suwajinja shrine here in the latter half of the 1980s, Shoko Koshiba had always felt there was something wrong from above.

Archaeologists in Pompeii have made the astonishing discovery of two life-sized relief sculptures of a man and a woman draped in classical robes ... figure may be a priestess.