Has God Himself honored relics ... We have, in this country, a civil custom similar to that of honoring pictures and images of saints, for, on Decoration or Memorial Day, patriotic citizens ...

The devotees celebrate the festival in temples by pouring water or milk over the Shiva linga, a stone sculpture symbolic of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. Some also observe a fast during the ...

and without God nothing can be or be conceived” (Spinoza). Someone on the podcast “The Holy Post” observed that in the history of religion, doing honor to the image of a deity is the gist of ...

In a bloody ritual, priests flayed victims and wore their skins as a tribute to the god of renewal and rebirth. On the left, a skull-like stone carving depicting the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic ...

Millions of devotees across India are celebrating the Shivaratri festival that honors the Hindu god Shiva, one of the main ...