YUZA, Yamagata -- Traditional "amahage" demon deities recently visited some 20 homes in this northern Japan town to warn ...

“People have a feeling of being protected by this burial site,” says Morihide Naka, Shinto priest of the Konda Hachimangu shrine that conducts the rite, in which about 1,000 locals participate.

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14, 1975. Now, 50 years later, the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, has begun its yearlong celebration honoring the anniversary of the saint’s canonization.

The Lithuanian cardinal, elevated to the College of Cardinals in December 2024, presided over the ceremony at Rome’s preeminent Marian shrine, where the “Bell of the Lost” rang out across ...

Achievement) Every region in Genshin Impact has 10 Shrine of Depths on the land. These buildings are enclosed by a seal of the ancient civilization, waiting for someone to unseal it and unearth ...