Some prayers find their way back quickly, like sunlight glancing off water. Others seem to drift into the distance and never ...

Most of us have said at least a prayer or two in our lives. Maybe a cry for help to the Lord or a praise for something good. Maybe you’ve whispered words on behalf of another soul going through a hard ...

Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to pray for good luck in the Year of the Snake. From Vietnam to Japan, ethnic ...

Many people across the Pacific region began celebrating the arrival Saturday of the Lunar New Year — the year of the rooster. In China, thousands gathered at Beijing’s temples to light incense and to ...

Paola Alvarez hovered over the nest of aromatics on the small iron grate and puffed into the glowing embers, sending a fragrant wisp of smoke toward the ceiling of her Five Points shop. The smoke rose ...

riverside home of Teng Kylong. The Supreme Patriarch of the Thommayut Order, Ven. Bou Kry: Monks play an important role in teaching people good behavior. Inside the house Kylong's family has been ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese are lighting incense sticks and praying at temples to wish for an auspicious start to the Lunar New Year. Thousands visited Beijing’s major temples on Saturday, the first day of ...

Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to pray for good luck in the Year of the Snake. They gave a small donation for ...

In this Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017 photo, a Malaysian ethnic Chinese woman places joss sticks in the cauldron on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The ...