This year’s DanceAfrica festival at BAM features Song & Dance Company of Mozambique, which a member likened to a mirror for the nation.

Ran-kan-kan: Long before I could name the source of my excitement, my body responded to the strident signature of Latin dance ...

“He said that the singer was a Satanist and that he was going to perform a Satanist ritual too, killing a child during the show,” Rio de Janeiro Civil Police secretary, officer Felipe ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the ...

For centuries, the head of the Roman Catholic Church has been chosen through what’s known as a papal conclave. The proceedings are cloaked in secrecy, making them the subject of speculation and ...

A century-old Banyan tree was partially cut down allegedly for links to some "un-Islamic" rituals in Alom Mirer Kandi village of Madaripur Sadar's Shirakara union on Monday. Wadia Shabab ...

Two thousand and four hundred Sikh Yatrees currently in Pakistan to celebrate Besakhi festival have arrived at Gurdwara Kartarpur to perform religious rituals. The Sikh yatrees will stay for two days ...

This period is also called sede vacante – meaning “vacant seat” in Latin. The seat in question is the Holy See – from the Latin Sancta Sedes, meaning “holy chair or seat” – also ...

The theme of self-care — as an antidote to the anxieties of identity — is woven throughout the show, apparent in works about yoga, meditation, public baths, skin-care rituals, dance and food ...

Westhill High School in Syracuse, New York. Members of the boys' varsity lacrosse team are accused of kidnapping younger players as part of a hazing incident, and are being ordered to turn ...

As Char Dham Yatra begins on Akshaya Tritiya (today), a younger generation reimagines the pilgrimage — seeking spirituality and soul-searching in equal measure Once seen as a journey for the ...