Religions Around The World

In the early morning hours, monks can be seen walking on their alms round in Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Showing humility and detachment from worldly goods, the monk walks slowly and only stops if he is called. Standing quietly, with his bowl open, the local Buddhists give him rice, or flowers, or an envelope containing money.  In return, the monks bless the local Buddhists and wish them a long and fruitful life.
Christians Celebrate Good Friday
Enacting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in St. Mary's Church in Secunderabad, India. Only 2.3% of India's population is Christian. 
Ancient interior mosaic in the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora
The Church of the Holy Saviour in Istanbul, Turkey is a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church.
Dome of the Rock located in the Old City of Jerusalem
The site's great significance for Muslims derives from traditions connecting it to the creation of the world and to the belief that the Prophet Muhammad's Night Journey to heaven started from the rock at the center of the structure.
Holi Festival in Mathura, India
Holi is a Hindu festival that marks the end of winter. Also known as the “festival of colors”,  Holi is primarily observed in South Asia but has spread across the world in celebration of love and the changing of the seasons.
Jewish father and daughter pray at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, Israel.
Known in Hebrew as the Western Wall, it is one of the holiest sites in the world. The description, "place of weeping", originated from the Jewish practice of mourning the destruction of the Temple and praying for its rebuilding at the site of the Western Wall.
People praying in Mengjia Longshan Temple in Taipei, Taiwan
The temple is dedicated to both Taoism and Buddhism.
People praying in the Grand Mosque in Ulu Cami
This is the most important mosque in Bursa, Turkey and a landmark of early Ottoman architecture built in 1399.
Savior Transfiguration Cathedral of the Savior Monastery of St. Euthymius
Located in Suzdal, Russia, this is a church rite of sanctification of apples and grapes in honor of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
Fushimi Inari Shrine is located in Kyoto, Japan
It is famous for its thousands of vermilion torii gates, which straddle a network of trails behind its main buildings. Fushimi Inari is the most important Shinto shrine dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice.
Ladles at the purification fountain in the Hakone Shrine
Located in Hakone, Japan, this shrine is a Japanese Shinto shrine.  At the purification fountain, ritual washings are performed by individuals when they visit a shrine. This ritual symbolizes the inner purity necessary for a truly human and spiritual life.
Hanging Gardens of Haifa are garden terraces around the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel
They are one of the most visited tourist attractions in Israel. The Shrine of the Báb is where the remains of the Báb, founder of the Bábí Faith and forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh in the Bahá'í Faith, have been buried; it is considered to be the second holiest place on Earth for Bahá'ís.
Pilgrims praying at the Pool of the Nectar of Immortality and Golden Temple
Located in Amritsar, India, the Golden Temple is one of the most revered spiritual sites of Sikhism. It is a place of worship for men and women from all walks of life and all religions to worship God equally. Over 100,000 people visit the shrine daily.
Entrance gateway of Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple Kowloon
Located in Hong Kong, China, the temple is dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, or the Great Immortal Wong. The Taoist temple is famed for the many prayers answered: "What you request is what you get" via a practice called kau cim.
Christian women worship at a church in Bois Neus, Haiti.
Haiti's population is 94.8 percent Christian, primarily Catholic. This makes them one of the most heavily Christian countries in the world.

World Religions News

The Ethics of Evidence Foundation has released two new publications


“…a guide preparing the heart and mind to enter into a post-secular age.”

April 2, 2025 The Ethics of Evidence Foundation in collaboration with Herder and Herder has released two new publications. This marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Ethics of Evidence Foundation, incorporated in New York, in the spring of 2015, an organization for education and research, with the mission to support the search for meaning in the age of information. The Ethics of Evidence Foundation has divisions for Medicine, Social Justice, Physics, and Cosmology.  

As the next volume in the series on the leading-edge theory of A Christian Cosmology by physicist-theologian Richard J. Pendergast, SJ (1927 -2012), Volume 2, The Cosmic Hierarchy: The Universe and its Many Irreducible Levels, is now available together with the introductory Volume 1 and Volume 6 on the Eucharist. Please visit herderandherder.com/pendergast-series for more information.  

Dr. Valerie Miké, a mathematical scientist, historian of science, and editor of the Pendergast series, has prepared a companion volume, From Information to Insight: Toward a Consistent Reading of Science and Faith, that offers independent testimony for the compatibility of faith and reason, science and religion.  

Special attention is called to three important issues discussed in this work:

  1. Introducing the work of the Jesuit scholar Richard J. Pendergast, SJ, Dr. Miké sees him as the second Pascal for the age of science, sharing the latter’s integrated vision of faith and reason.
  2. Dr. Miké identifies the high-profile Arkansas Creation Trial of 1982 as a major source of the widespread mistaken notion that religion and science are not related and that evolution must be a random process. Referring to her own published work, she points out that speculation about the meaning of sense experience has been an essential part of the history of ideas from antiquity.
  3. In a more recent development, Sir Ronald A. Fisher, a leading scientist of the twentieth century, founder of modern statistics and genetics and the creator of  Neo-Darwinian synthesis, was caught by the cancel wave sweeping our culture. Using her extensive personal knowledge, Dr. Miké offers documentation to clear Fisher’s name of the false charges raised against him.

More information can be found at herderandherder.com/pendergast-series 

“In this companion to A Christian Cosmology, Dr. Valerie Miké introduces the reader to the comprehensive vision of physicist-theologian Richard J. Pendergast, S.J., in a historical perspective that testifies to the compatibility of faith and reason, science and religion. A mathematical scientist, Dr. Miké was a witness and participant in the advent of the Age of Information. Her work, informed by the application of statistics to medicine, and by the Ethics of Evidence approach to understanding the world, brings philosophical realism to the existential and scientific uncertainty of our day. Seeking the truth, using the best available methods in each and every discipline, Dr. Miké addresses the irreducible nature of uncertainty, to overcome the ignorance, deception, reductionism, and fear of the unknown that are so endemic to our age. The book is invaluable as a guide preparing the heart and mind to enter into a post-secular age.” — MSGR. STUART W. SWETLAND, STD, President of Donnelly College, Kansas, National media commentator on religious issues; Academic degrees in theology (Pontifical Lateran University), physics (US Naval Academy), philosophy and economics (Oxford).

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