Using the great outdoors as a tonic to the stresses of modern life has surged since covid, and pilgrimages — meditative, multi-day walks — are on the rise, with new routes emerging across the ...

A pilgrimage is wellness at its simplest, and an antidote to fast-paced 21st-century life. 1. Golden Valley Pilgrim Way, southwest Herefordshire The Golden Valley Pilgrim Way doesn’t get you ...

On the calm waters of Lough Derg in Ireland, the small Station Island is home to one of the toughest pilgrimages in the world. IRISH LENT: On the calm waters of Lough Derg in Ireland, the small ...

L-R: Daliso Chaponda, Harry Clark, Stef Reid, Helen Lederer, Nelufar Hedayat, Jay McGuiness and Jeff Brazier (Image credit: CTVC) The cast of this year’s Pilgrimage embraced the challenge of the ...

Savannakhet is easily accessible from Thailand via the Friendship Bridge in Mukdahan province. Manisakhone Thammavongxay, head of the Lao Tourism Promotion Department, said Savannakhet is home to ...

This unique handwritten Quran, created by participants of the Arbaeen pilgrimage, is being displayed for the public. It was completed in the year 1444 AH. The booth also features the first through ...

Historically, most indigenous and traditional societies viewed religion as a sacred space—as an animate, spiritual force often embodying deities, ancestors, or cosmic principles. The deep ...

Predominantly Catholics, throngs of Filipinos are going on a spiritual pilgrimage to Europe this Holy Year of Jubilee for the Catholic Church, which takes place every 25 years in remembrance of the ...

In 2024, 500,000 people made the pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, northern Spain. To get there, they took one of a number of paths that spiderweb from starting points ...

Fans devoted to freeing convicted serial baby killer Lucy Letby have boasted of making ghoulish pilgrimages to her home. People backing the ex-nurse talk of making return visits to the 1960s ...

This image is from the Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh. A pilgrimage for Dharma, for those that came before us, and those that will come after. A clear blue sky announces a lovely day as the ...

A popular Vietnamese monk and his companions have headed to Malaysia from Thailand after they failed to enter war-torn Myanmar on their walking pilgrimage to reach India, the birthplace of Buddhism, ...