Pilgrimage

What He Found On A 2,100-Mile Hike Along The Appalachian Trail

Debra Ollivier | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Appalachian Trail, Hiking Through, Religion, Baby Boomers, Pilgrimage, Paul Stuzman, Spiritual Seeking, Reinvention, Widow/Widower, Slideshow, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

After his wife of 36 years died of breast cancer, Paul Stuzman, 57, spent 138 days hiking 2,176 miles along the Appalachian trail. He tells the story in Hiking Through: One Man's Journey to Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail.

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PHOTOS: March 1 Means Welsh Pride

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Welsh Tudor Kings of England, Daffodils, March 1st, Pilgrimage, Cenhinen Pedr, Leeks, Dewi Sant, St. David's Day, Welsh Guards, St David, British Army, Wales, St David's, Glyn Rhosyn, Shakespeare, Patron Saint, Saxon Invaders, Henry V, Cenhinen, Pembrokeshire, Slidepollajax, Travel News
Margie Goldsmith

The two opposing uniforms were so similar that St. David commanded his soldiers to wear a leek on their helmets. Since then, the leek has been a symbol of Wales.

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The Hajj Is One Journey We All Need to Understand

Christina Patterson | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Religion, British Museum, Islam, Pilgrimage, Spiritual Journey, Hajj, Culture News
Christina Patterson

You don't have to go round it seven times, but you almost feel you should. You almost feel, when you go into what used to be the reading room at the British Museum and hear the wailing of a human voice that millions hear as a call to prayer, as if you should swap your jeans for a tunic.

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Christian Pilgrimage And Middle Eastern Water Scarcity

Rachel Havrelock | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Christianity, Pilgrimage, Green Faith, River Jordan, Baptism Jordan, Ecotourism, Religion News
Rachel Havrelock

Skeptics might do well to remember that, in many of these traditions, the Jordan is the gateway to heaven.

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Help Me to Support Education and Orphan Care in Bihar, India

Jim Luce | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Ranjan Kumar, Orphan Care, Gyanjyoti Rural Elementary School, Luce Leader, Gyanjyoti Rural Development Welfare Trust, Bataspur Village, Pilgrimage, Jim Luce, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Education, Bodh Gaya, India, Orphans International Worldwide, Bihar, Hinduism, Rural Development, Impact News
Jim Luce

One of the highlights of my pilgrimage to India has been meeting Ranjan Kumar, founder and president of the Gyanjyoti Rural Development Welfare Trust.

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Massacre At Jerusalem -- Do The Crusades Still Matter?

Jay Rubenstein | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: War Crimes, Islam, Bill Clinton, Jihad, Crusades, Pilgrimage, Apocalypse, Jerusalem, Middle East, Massacre, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Christianity, Galileo, Vatican, Evangelicals, Massacre in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Massacre, Religion News
Jay Rubenstein

For better or worse, we remember the First Crusade now. But how should we do so? What did the battle of Jerusalem mean in 1099, and why should we care today?

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Pilgrimage to Albert Schweitzer's Lambarene

Katherine Marshall | Posted 11.05.2011

Read More: Pelican, Pilgrimage, Missionaries, Gabon, Hospital, Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life, Lambarene, Oguooe, Pilgrimage to Lambarene, Gabon Hospital, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Health, Gabrielle Giffords, Missing Persons, In a Minute, Religion News
Katherine Marshall

"Responsibility is a difficult thing. Most people prefer to accept a common code of behavior that takes from them the need to make choices and leaves them simply with the obligation to obey ... "

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10 Holy Pilgrimage Destinations

Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Holy Land, World Religions, Kumbh Mela, Muslim Pilgrimage, Religious Pilgrimages, Pilgrimage, Hajj, Holy Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Holy Sites, Christian Pilgrimage, Religion News

One thing that most, if not all, of the world's religious traditions have in common is a strong reverence for specific holy sites that are important t...

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Justice Department Sues School District Over Religious Rights

Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Michael Esposito, Department of Justice, Islam, Pilgrimage, Equal Employment Opportunity Commision, Berkeley, Hajj, Religious Freedom, Muslims, Illinois, Religious Rights, Teachers, Impact News

A lawsuit pitting the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of a Muslim teacher, against a small town in Illinois has sparked tensions and a wide deba...

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Why I Went Public About Smuggling News of Brutal Crackdowns Out of China

Matteo Pistono | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Pilgrimage, Dalai Lama, Book, Meditation, Politics, Tibet, Reincarnation, China, Buddhism, Memoir, Books News
Matteo Pistono

The more time I spent in Tibet delving into the 19th-century teachings of Tertön Sogyal, the more often I met Tibetans who wanted to tell me their story of frustration and pain at what they see as China occupying their country.

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Iraq Suicide Bomber Kills 32 Shiite Pilgrims

AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq, Suicide Bomber, Iraqi Suicide Bomber, Shiite, Baghdad, Terrorist Attack, Pilgrimage, Shiite Pilgrims@Y:World, World News

BAGHDAD — Militants struck across the Iraqi capital Wednesday, killing more than 50 people, including 32 in a suicide bombing that targeted pilg...

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Varanasi: India's Holy City (PHOTOS)

Rajan P. Parrikar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Pilgrimage, Slideshow, Ghats, Ganges, Holy, Ganga, Hindu, Shiva, Culture, Jain, Varanasi, Sacred, Buddhist, India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Cremation, Sikh, Benaras, Kashi, Stupa, Sarnath, Religion News
Rajan P. Parrikar

In this holy place beats the heart of an ancient civilization.

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Crumbs of Wisdom from The Bread of Angels

Jan McGirk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Damascus, Harvard, Depression, Monastery, Pilgrimage, Cambridge, Eat Pray Love, Romance, Madrassa, Elizabeth Gilbert, Suicide, Texas, Faith, Fulbright Scholar, Doubleday, Stephanie Saldana, Books News
Jan McGirk

The complex emotional struggles that Saldana recounts in a vivid memoir of her year as a Fulbright scholar in Syria, hooked the imagination of this cynical former Middle East reporter.

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Swine Flu Kills 5 At Hajj, Saudi Official Says

AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Pilgrimage, Mecca, Virus, Swine Flu Deaths, Hajj, Swine Flu, Flu, Saudi Arabia, Muslim, H1n1, World News

MINA, Saudi Arabia — Five people died from swine flu during the hajj, Saudi Arabia said Sunday, a relatively small number considering the event ...

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U2'S SACRED PILGRIMAGE: 'I found grace, it's all that I found'

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Daniel Lanois, Larry Mullen, Gospel Music, Pilgrimage, Morocco, Adam Clayton, No Line on the Horizon, U2, Sacred, Fez, The Edge, Bono, Video, Healthy Living News
Cathleen Falsani

Without a line on the horizon, we may feel like there is no limit to how far we can go. But it also makes the seas difficult to navigate. That is, in...

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