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Cleaning bones: Maya community honors the dead

Art & Culture 4 years ago

Cleaning bones: Maya community honors the dead

This year, the ritual, usually held in late October before Mexico's Day of the Dead festival, is taking place for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

State universities 'adopt' morning Pancasila readings per new ministerial rule

National 4 years ago

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State universities 'adopt' morning Pancasila readings per new ministerial rule

The education ministry has become the latest to impose a rule on celebrating Pancasila through regular ceremonial events to start the workday, as part of an ongoing bureaucratic trend to reinforce the civil service's commitment to upholding the state ideology.

Pilgrims ascend Mount Arafat in high point of pandemic-era haj

World 4 years ago

Pilgrims ascend Mount Arafat in high point of pandemic-era haj

Just 60,000 people, all citizens or residents of Saudi Arabia, have been selected to take part in this year's haj, with foreign pilgrims again barred.

Thousands climb Indonesian volcano for ritual sacrifice

Lifestyle 4 years ago

Thousands climb Indonesian volcano for ritual sacrifice

Thousands of worshippers trudged up an active Indonesian volcano Saturday to cast livestock and other offerings down its smouldering crater in a centuries-old religious ceremony.

Thousands climb Tengger volcano for ritual sacrifice

Event 4 years ago

Thousands climb Tengger volcano for ritual sacrifice

Every year people from the Tengger tribe gather from the surrounding highlands to throw fruit, vegetables, flowers and even livestock such as goats and chickens into Mount Bromo's crater as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival.

Saudi allows 60,000 vaccinated residents on haj, bars foreigners again

World 4 years ago

Saudi allows 60,000 vaccinated residents on haj, bars foreigners again

The haj -- a must for able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lives -- typically packs millions of pilgrims into congested religious sites and could be a major source of contagion amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Venezuela's Dancing Devils ask for an end to the pandemic

Art & Culture 4 years ago

Venezuela's Dancing Devils ask for an end to the pandemic

Residents played drums for dancers who dressed as devils that took an animal form, such as horses, dogs or cats, with bells tied to their waists.

Ancient traditional healing rituals go digital in virus-hit S.Africa

Health 4 years ago

Ancient traditional healing rituals go digital in virus-hit S.Africa

Incense burned gently in the corner of a sunlit room as South African traditional healer Makhosi Malatji fixed her smartphone into a tripod and reached for a small bag of divination bones.

The earliest known human burial discovered in Africa

Science & Tech 4 years ago

The earliest known human burial discovered in Africa

The sunken pit, in a cave complex along the coast of Kenya, was bereft of ornaments, offerings or ochre-coloured clay carvings found in the region's more recent Stone Age graves, they detailed in the journal Nature.

Hundreds test positive for Covid-19 at India religious festival

World 4 years ago

Hundreds test positive for Covid-19 at India religious festival

The virus was detected in more than 1,000 people in just 48 hours in the city of Haridwar, which lies along the holy river where the Kumbh Mela is being observed, officials said.

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