In Rishikesh, India on May 2, 2025, a bull hopped on a parked scooter and took it for a short spin. Locals watched in ...

The goings-on at Ramesseum Temple near Luxor, Egypt, were far more in-depth than experts believed possible. This site wasn’t just a religious symbol or place to bury the dead—it had cultural ...

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Najran, March 28, 2025, SPA -- The craft of palm frond weaving in Najran Region is one of the most prominent and popular traditional crafts that reflects the local cultural heritage and customs. It ...

“It gets freaky. It feels like I’m in the Temple of Doom.” Some of the elements can feel a bit like cultural appropriation today, particularly in Egyptian Hall, but this is a building from another ...

The faithful emerged from St. Peter’s Square carrying blessed palm fronds or olive branches to mark the occasion. While the pope’s appearance was widely expected, pilgrims acknowledged some concern ...

On this day, we buy palaspas (palm leaves) that the priest blesses during the Mass. When we were younger, we believed that blessed palm leaves warded off evil spirits. Therefore, when we returned home ...

Father Flavie Villanueva blesses palm fronds held by Manila’s homeless ... often tempted to give up hope after escaping slavery in Egypt.” “This is how hope springs forth — when the ...

Nochesadas’ book is a cultural history as well as a how-to book on the many uses of palm leaves: sacred (Palm Sunday use), recreational (toys, used like sipa for kicking), decorative (all kinds of ...

The ruins reportedly include foundational structures, stairways, and traces of pavilions that match illustrations of royal water palaces recorded in ancient palm-leaf manuscripts known as the Pura ...

The pilgrims waving palm fronds wound their way down from Bethphage – a Franciscan church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem – down to the Monastery of the Ascension and downhill to ...

Believers formed a line to receive Holy Communion. Some visitors held olive branches, others fronds of palm. Many had braided palms on their heads, commemorating the palm branches the crowds waved ...