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Thousands of flowers adorn Romanian city of Iași for religious holiday

The feast of St Paraskeva is one of the most significant religious events in Romania, drawing thousands of pilgrims from throughout the country.

Georgia

How long can Russia's pacifist Christian sect survive for in Georgia?

Today, only about 100 Doukhobors remain in the tight-knit Russian-speaking farming community in two remote mountainous villages in southern Georgia.

Portugal

Motorcyclists gather in their thousands at Fatima shrine for blessing

The blessing of the helmets has become one of the great events and one of the great pilgrimages to Fatima's shrine in recent years. This year’s was the largest ever.

Albania

Albania announces plan to create a Vatican City-like microstate

If all goes to plan, the so-called "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order" will become the world's smallest state, just a quarter of the size of Vatican City.

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Moments

Lourdes to Fatima: Inside the lucrative world of religious tourism

This week, the Vatican officially approved religious pilgrimages to Međugorje in Bosnia.

Europe News

Eastern European voters care more about candidates' religion — study

People with right-wing views are more likely to choose a leader who shares their religious beliefs, the Pew Research Centre told Euronews.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Vatican backs devotion at Bosnian shrine where Virgin Mary 'appeared'

The Vatican did not rule that the accounts that children and teenagers saw Mary in the village of Međugorje in 1981 were authentic, but it said that the spiritual experience of visiting the shrine justified pilgrimages there.

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Combating religious intolerance in Rio

Religious practitioners marched in Rio de Janeiro to promote tolerance among Brazil's diverse faiths.

Europe News

Pope wraps up longest trip of his tenure as head of Catholic Church

Pope Francis departed Singapore on Friday - wrapping up his tour through Southeast Asia and Oceania, where he visited four countries and preached a message of religious tolerance and inclusivity.

Indonesia

Pope Francis and Indonesia's grand imam sign pledge calling for peace

The leader of the Catholic Church and Jakarta's Grand Imam Nusaruddin Umar vowed to fight religiously inspired violence and protect the environment, issuing a joint call for interfaith friendship and common cause.

Culture news

'KAOS': Who is Jeff Goldblum's Netflix show about Greek gods for?

In Netflix's 'KAOS', Jeff Goldblum plays a petulant Zeus in a modern-day Ancient Greece with aplomb. But does the show have wings?

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Pope opens Asia tour with stop in Indonesia

The journey, in which the pope will visit Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore is the longest of his pontificate.

Europe News

Pope goes on Asia tour, the longest and farthest of his ponificate

Francis will clock 32,814 kilometres by air during his 2-13 September visit to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore, far surpassing any of his previous 44 foreign trips.

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How the war in Ukraine has driven a split through the Orthodox Church

Russia's war is forcing Orthodox Christians in Ukraine to choose between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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WATCH: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block highway in Israel

Dozens of people blocked a main highway in central Israel after the Israeli military said Tuesday it will begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men.

Moments

Why more non-religious pilgrims than ever are walking the Camino

Traditionally a Catholic pilgrimage, the Camino increasingly draws the spiritual but not religious.

Europe News

'Democracy is not in good health,' says Pope Francis

The leader of the Catholic Church addressed thousands in Trieste and renewed his commitment to pray and work for peace in Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Sudan and Myanmar.

Europe News

Bulgaria's Orthodox Church elects new patriarch in divisive vote

Bulgaria's Orthodox Church has elected Daniil as its new leader in a vote that reflected the divisions in the church and wider society since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.

World News

Stampede at religious gathering in India kills at least 116

Women and children are reported to be among the dead.

Israel

Israel's top court orders army to draft ultra-Orthodox men

Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that ultra-Orthodox men must be subject to compulsory military service, ending longstanding exemptions and potentially impacting PM Netanyahu’s coalition amid ongoing conflict in Gaza.