As the once-in-ten-year exposition of St. Francis Xavier’s relics draws near in Goa, western India, hundreds of Christians, joined by Hindus and Muslims, are to undertake a “pilgrimage on foot” to ...

The pilgrimage began in 2019 in the archdiocese, which covers the tiny Indian state next to Daman and Diu to its north on the west coast of India. Goa, a former Portuguese colony, has around 500,000 ...

The ice lingam holds deep spiritual significance in the Hindu religion, and its absence is disheartening to devotees who join ...

Nation & World The Camino, a Catholic pilgrimage, increasingly draws the spiritual but not religious July 9, 2024 at 10:04 am ...