EL ROCIO, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims slogged for days under a punishing sun through country roads, sandy paths, even a river ford to reach the tiny hamlet of El Rocío in ...

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Religious pilgrimages are arguably enjoying a level of popularity today that hasn’t been seen since medieval times when peasants and noblemen alike set out for shrines and holy places, on penitential ...

More than a century ago, the prophet Isaiah Shembe founded the Nazareth Baptist Church. Built on the principle that faith should not erase identity, the amaNazaretha worship through prayer, ...