BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Across the county, communities celebrated Juneteenth, or Freedom Day, on Wednesday, June 19. Many Americans may remember from history class that slavery ended when President ...

Feb. 14 marks the start of Lent, a 40-day religious celebration observed by many Christian denominations, including Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox traditions. Every year, the celebration begins on ...

A city in Ohio has reversed course and will allow a local woman to display a live nativity scene at a winter farmers market ...

The Edmond Baha’i Community will be hosting its 17th annual World Religion Day celebration program at noon on Sunday, Jan. 15. The event will begin with lunch and will be held at the Edmond Baha’i ...

At the Pride Fest in Santa Monica, Calif., six houses of worship — five churches and a synagogue — had booths lined up all in a row. The Episcopalians offered table bowling. The Lutherans offered ...

The very first Halloween celebrations trace back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which later morphed into All ...

Around 2,000 Indian pilgrims were safely transported back to Kartarpur after completing their rituals and attending the three ...

June in Wooster Square signaled the beginning of the religious celebrations honoring the patreon of the villages and towns that had been home to the immigrants. Every village and town in Italy is ...

Officials say about 2,100 Indian Sikh pilgrims have arrived in eastern Pakistan to participate in an annual commemoration of ...

INLE LAKE, Myanmar (AP) — Hundreds of waterborne spectators gathered Friday to watch boat races on Myanmar’s Inle Lake, the highlight of the annual Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival. The festival, held on ...

When I started studying sociology of religion, one of the interesting human activities I found is what anthropologists call “rites of intensification.” These activities have been found by ...