pilgrimage
What is the Lag BaOmer pilgrimage?
By Joshua Shanes — May 17, 2022
(The Conversation) — A scholar of Jewish history explains why the annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel has such power and meaning.
As COVID-19 shutdown lifts, Mecca’s pilgrims bring Islam’s holiest city back to life
By Rabiya Jaffery — April 19, 2022
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (RNS) — Pandemic closures played havoc with the livelihoods of traders who depended on the pilgrims.
Christena Cleveland shifts from ‘white male God’ to ‘Sacred Black Feminine’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 8, 2022
(RNS) — The author of ‘God Is a Black Woman' said she’s a theist but ‘my understanding of God is not what most people would say is orthodox Christianity.’
Pilgrims return to Spain’s ‘El Camino’ paths after pandemic
By Iain Sullivan and Joseph Wilson — June 5, 2021
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) — Soul-searchers hoping to heal wounds left by the coronavirus are once again strapping on backpacks and following trails marked with a seashell emblem to the shrine in the city of Santiago de Compostela.
Intention can turn any lockdown walk into pilgrimage, urges British Pilgrimage Trust
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 9, 2021
(RNS) — Pilgrimage is about traveling, about being a stranger in a strange land, according to the director. The pandemic flips that on its head.
How to make a pilgrimage into 2021
By Wes Granberg-Michaelson — December 31, 2020
(RNS) — We walk forward into unknown terrain, not certain of what we will encounter, but learning to trust that hospitable grace will sustain us.
Author Kristen J. Sollée takes a journey to the ‘witchy history places’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 30, 2020
(RNS) — Kristen J. Sollée's book 'Witch Hunt' is part travelogue, part memoir, with a dash of historical fiction, and it comes at a time when, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, readers aren't able to travel.
Pilgrims arrive in Mecca for downsized hajj amid pandemic
By Aya Batrawy — July 28, 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down hajj, as Saudi authorities balance the kingdom’s oversight of one of Islam’s key pillars and the safety of visitors.
Saudi Arabia to hold ‘very limited’ hajj due to virus
By Associated Press — June 22, 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The kingdom said that only people of various nationalities already residing in the country would be allowed to perform the hajj.
Five years after shooting, Mother Emanuel uneasily adapts as pilgrimage site
By Matthew J. Cressler — June 17, 2020
(RNS) — Before the pandemic struck, worship often included people from across the U.S. and some foreign countries, come to pray at what they take to be a sacred site.
Digital pilgrimages allow the faithful to travel the world from their couches
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 29, 2020
(RNS) — From hashtagged photos posted on Instagram to immersive apps, digital pilgrimages are making spiritual journeys possible for the faithful, even as they stay home.
Episcopalian pilgrims bring Spain’s Camino de Santiago to the Appalachian Trail
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 28, 2019
ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL, Pa. (RNS) — Inspired by Spain's popular pilgrimage, hikers from the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania are making their own "Appalachian Camino" this week on the piece of the Appalachian Trail winding through the diocese.
Celtic spirituality draws pagans and Christians alike
By Eric Berger — August 17, 2018
(RNS) — 'It’s a big-tent spirituality,' said book editor Brandenburgh, 'so it’s something that not only Roman Catholics and mainline Protestants feel comfortable with, but it’s also something that is of interest to the neo-pagans of the world, many of the New Age types.'
What is the Hajj?
By Ken Chitwood — August 17, 2018
(The Conversation) — Nearly 2 million Muslim pilgrims are gathering in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, a once-in-a-lifetime obligation for all Muslims who are able to undertake the five-day pilgrimage.
The Ruby Woo pilgrimage: Hear the pulpits roar
By Lisa Sharon Harper — November 16, 2017
(RNS) — Christian, evangelical, feminist activist Lisa Sharon Harper explains how she came to lead the 'Ruby Woo' pilgrimage.
