Ancient Daoist mystics believed death was not the end but a barrier that could be broken through terrifying rituals, starvation diets, sexual control, breath manipulation and dangerous alchemy. Some ...

Vat Savitri Vrat 2026 will be observed on May 16 with fasting, banyan tree worship, and prayers for husbands’ long life and ...

Before the 1990s, many Malawian communities feared coffins almost as much as death itself. Burial rites largely followed ...

Mount Sinai was the culmination of a 400-year process that began when God selected our ancestor Abraham. This revolutionary ...

Tens of thousands of years before the first cities rose, Ice Age hunter-gatherers were already building monumental structures, forging trade networks, and gathering for feasts that may have laid the ...

There was an emotional moment at Southern University's graduation in Baton Rouge as leaders awarded a posthumous degree to ...

Archaeologists in France uncovered fragments of a 2nd-century CE life-size mural of Greek hero Achilles in a Roman home near ...

May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. CBC Books is highlighting books by writers of East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian ...

Governor KT Parnaik has expressed profound grief over the passing away of noted social activist and respected community leader Dr Bengia Tolum. The governor said that late Tolum was a visionary social ...

A teenage Buddhist lama recently blessed thousands at a monastery in the Himalayan foothills. Just six months earlier and ...

Christopher Sieber will not perform May 22 - 24. Betsy Wolfe will not perform May 16 at 2pm and June 7 at 2pm.