The beauty of spirituality is that it differs from religion and transcends many different cultures. Many spiritual symbols we see come from all areas of the world and can be practiced by anyone ...

Be it in religion, political ideology, or art, we still come across many of these symbols in our day to day, often without ...

Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by country. Pew Research Center.

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

France’s bedrock principle of laïcité — its model of secularism based on Enlightenment philosophy that separated religion from the state — has led to bans of religious symbols in some ...

Hinduism is widely regarded as the oldest religion in the world, with roots that trace back ... suggests the presence of religious practices, symbols, and deities resembling those found in later ...

The enshrinement of the symbols in each host country is similar to the Olympic ... Open to any youth regardless of religion, World Youth Day was launched in 1984 at the suggestion of Pope John Paul II ...