The salmon likely traveled over 200 miles from the Pacific, just months after the California dams were removed.

Analysis - The Nuer are a large pastoralist community living in western Ethiopia and South Sudan in east Africa. They rely on livestock keeping and have special beliefs and customs about how to live ...

Birds play a wide range of unique cultural roles for the Nuer people, who have three interchangeable names for them.

The offering of a pair of hilsa fish during Lakshmi Puja is a cherished tradition in certain communities of Bengal; it's ...

Over the next two hours, the group prayed, sometimes quietly and sometimes very loudly, and sometimes in strings of syllables ...

Vegetarian bhog for the goddess and a folk dances by tribal communities on Navami are some of the highlights of this Puja ...

For many Bengali families, Durga Puja is incomplete without their beloved ilish (hilsa). Some even offer it to the Goddess, ...

During these centuries, a common, unspoken language of symbols often reflected the region's shifting geopolitics, allegiances ...

PARIS – On Tuesday, the ban against religious symbols in public schools in France was passed by a vote of 494 to 36. Now the students are not allowed to wear Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps, and ...

In the autumn of 1974, as former president Richard Nixon resigned and the US was still entrenched in the Vietnam War, Cyd Chartier and her parents were introduced to the fundamentalist religious ...

That’s one reason why he partnered with the “Holy Post” podcast on a voter guide video about religious liberty, in which he argues that claims about widespread Christian persecution are unhelpful — ...

Indians in West Bengal may face a shortage of hilsa, their favourite fish, as millions gear up to celebrate the state's biggest festival, Durga Puja, in October. That is because Bangladesh ...