or the Sacred Place Where Life Begins, said Merben Cebrian, the refuge manager, in a letter to Kaktovik leaders in May. The tribe’s identification of the site is based on the seasonal ...

In the scenic Phobjikha Valley of Bhutan, the natives eagerly await their return each winter. Monks of the local monastery pray for their safe journey and legend has it that they circle the ...

As well as being an important centre of martial arts, it is also a sacred place of Buddhist study. Shi Yandian is a student monk at the temple hoping to qualify as a full warrior monk. Rising up ...

Kate Rigby - Professor of Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, and author of Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004), Dancing with Disaster: Histories ...

“Keep in mind, this is sacred land to us Hawaiians. Our King was raised in this valley, and it’s so important that everyone has respect while visiting this special place,” Sarah Pule-Fujii ...

(RNS) — 'This year we received nearly 500 applications, up 31% from last year,' said Rachel Hildebrandt, director of the National Fund for Sacred Places. (RNS) — Two dozen historic faith ...

Gymnastics influencer María del Mar Pérez Banus has been accused of “insulting” Japanese culture after performing a “vulgar” acrobatics routine at a sacred shrine. A since-deleted ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

It is one of 24 faith communities to receive a grant from the National Fund for Sacred Places and the Eli Lilly Corporation this year. The 24 recipients were chosen from a pool of 500 applicants ...

Unshaken as I cry, dear Lord, I place my trust in thee. This is my one sweet prayer, dear Lord, my faith, my trust, my love, But most of all in that last hour, when death points up above ...