After emerging from cloistered isolation in 1865, following more than 200 years of violent harassment by Japan’s insular ...

AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 800 YEAR ... SPRING AND A PRAYER FOR A GOOD HARVEST IN GIFU PREFECTURE, JAPAN. IT’S EVEN BEEN DESIGNATED AN INTANGIBLE FOLK CULTURAL ASSET BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

Palestinians in Deir al-Balah held funeral prayers Wednesday over the bodies of victims including children who were killed in ...

The rare version of Christianity heading toward extinction - Hidden Christians are dying out, and there is growing certainty ...

Japanese pro baseball legend Nagashima Shigeo has died. He was 89. His former team the Yomiuri Giants announced early Tuesday ...

your efforts to open a new chapter of reconciliation are more valuable than ever,” he said. “The Holy See follows these efforts with great attention and joins in prayer for the peaceful ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ...

Japanese baseball luminaries and other sporting figures have paid tribute to Yomiuri Giants icon Shigeo Nagashima, who died ...

My first vivid childhood memory was the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor ... the linoleum- covered floor and recited the Lord’s Prayer. I, too, joined my family in prayer.

The Lunar New Year, arguably the most important holiday in China, falls on Jan. 22 this year. In his 1951 essay titled “The Spring Festival of Beijing,” author Lao She (1899-1966), who is best ...

The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that ...

as these farmhouse’s steeply slanted thatched roofs bear an uncanny resemblance to the clasped hands of a person engaged in solemn prayer. I love the Japanese word "gassho," and I find it ...