India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

A 12TH-CENTURY Greek lectionary that was ... as “a Byzantine shrine somehow detached from Constantinople and dropped into the Home Counties”. The church is licensed for public worship in the parish of ...

It is believed that this ancient church was built atop a Greek shrine and dates back to at ... clearly identified the site as a place of Pan worship before the arrival of Christianity.

Hallowed ground – a Baha’i house of worship in Samoa ... tucked into a forest of cedars at the foot of Mount Fuji, the shrine is “quiet and peaceful, and is the traditional starting point ...

The previous summer, as part of a workshop with Greek and Japanese students ... hereditary priests and caretakers of Yoshida Shrine, a major center of Shinto worship in Kyoto.

The 12 years of Francis’s pontificate were marked by 13 trips in Asia, from the first visit to South Korea to the long ...

The tomb is within a shrine called the Edicule ... It is the oldest continuously used place of worship in Christianity and is the oldest major church in the Holy Land. It has been among the ...

or shrine to water nymphs, decorated with marble statues and glass mosaics, artificial pools and seashells. Legend holds that the grotto was also a place for the worship of Cybele, the pagan ...

According to stories recorded by the Greek historians Dio Cassius and Tacitus, Vespasian worked several healing miracles, while visiting the shrine of ... themselves to his worship and service.

In ancient Greek mythology, wolves maintained a complex symbolic presence ... Archaeological evidence shows wolf imagery in some temple decorations associated with her worship. However, wolves also ...