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These eye-popping, hand-painted trucks rule Pakistan's roads Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good too, and helped recover missing children.

In Mexico, piñatas are a Christmas essential full of history, art and treats Piñatas are a common element in parties across different countries, but especially in Mexico around Christmas time, and the story of their origin combines cultures, traditions and religions.

Michael Steinhardt, Billionaire, Surrenders $70 Million in Stolen Relics The hedge fund pioneer is barred for life from buying more antiquities. He turned over 180 stolen objects that had decorated his homes and office.

Hanukkah is a busy week for Wyoming's only rabbi On the last night of Hanukkah, Chabad Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn wraps up a busy week. He is currently the only ordained rabbi serving in Wyoming.

The Catholic ecologist Bill Jacobs sees the pristine lawns around him as ecological deserts that feed neither wildlife nor the human soul. For him, to reconnect with nature is akin to feeling close to God. https://nyti.ms/3okR1vP

An educational video game on global Indian festival cultures is out now: Durga Puja Beyond Borders is a collab work of a Finnish academic (Xenia Zeiler, Editor in Chief gamevironments) and an Indian game development studio. It's OA - enjoy playing!

Día De Los Mu***os Celebrations Are Back With A Vengeance, Here's How Mexico City Celebrated After having to go on a hiatus because of the pandemic, Mexicans and communities around the world are back to celebrating the beautiful tradition.

'We're in the middle of a witch moment': Hip witchcraft is on the rise in the US Samhain, the likely precursor to Halloween, has caught on as more Americans embrace astrology and pagan sects such as Wicca.

Here’s the story behind Día de Mu***os altars — and how you can build one Día de los Mu***os (Day of the Dead) is Nov. 1 and 2, 2021. Here's what goes into building an ofrenda, or altar, for a deceased loved one.

Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Yukon River tribes in crisis Two salmon species have all but disappeared from Alaska's Yukon River this year, prompting the state to shut down fishing in an effort to save them.

How One Of The Last Fez Makers In Cairo Keeps A 600-Year-Old Tradition Alive | Still Standing Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the las...

As Lacrosse Ascends, a Reckoning With Its Past Horrid discoveries have forced a humbling conversation about the sport's role in “cultural genocide” against Indigenous peoples.

A Controversial Solution To Menstrual Exile: Building Better Menstrual Huts There's long been opposition to the practice of forcing a woman on her period to menstrual exile to huts, which can be unsafe and unsanitary. One charity has a new interim response: Upgrade the huts.

PHOTOS: Mexican Artists Create Fantastical Masks To Show The Many Faces Of COVID Two professors invited indigenous artisans to make masks portraying the agent of the pandemic — the coronavirus — through the lens of their cultural traditions.

It's not always 'curry': Desi cooks call for change to Western whitewashing of food Desi Americans say the British colonial term “curry” doesn’t represent what they grew up eating and are refusing to cater to the Western gaze.

Washington Football Team Bans Native American Headdresses and Face Paint The new dress code policy for home games comes just over a year after the team dropped its logo and “Redskins” from its name.

Justice Department seizes rare, ancient tablet illegally auctioned to Hobby Lobby After the first Gulf War in 1991, thousands of objects were looted, including many cuneiform tablets, from archeological sites in Iraq, prosecutors said.

Capitalism: God Wants You To Be Rich : Throughline In the New Testament, Jesus says it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. In the United States today, many Christians believe in something radically different. In what's known as the prosperity gospel, wealth is a sign of virtue and...

An Unmarried Catholic Schoolteacher Got Pregnant. She Was Fired. A lawsuit that she filed in New Jersey is testing the First Amendment limits of religious freedom.

Opinion | The Ganges Is Returning the Dead. It Does Not Lie. Floating corpses in the country's holiest river are Exhibit A for the Modi administration’s failures and deceptions.

Mining for lithium, at a cost to Indigenous religions In western Arizona, the push for EVs threatens the Hualapai Tribe’s religious practices.

A religious symbol, not a knife: at the heart of the NSW kirpan ban is a battle to define secularism Banning the kirpan because it resembles a knife heads Australia down a path of religion free schools.

Vatican Warns U.S. Bishops About Denying Communion To Supporters Of Abortion Rights The possible plan could impact President Biden, among other Catholic political figures. The Vatican is calling for U.S. bishops to reach a consensus and says any such move could sow division.

Germany Will Repatriate Benin Bronzes, Plundered From Africa In The 19th Century German officials announced they have reached an agreement with Nigeria to return artifacts looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin and now housed in German museums; other nations also hold bronzes.

Muslim Americans Reflect On Another Ramadan During The Pandemic On April 13, Muslims across the U.S. began the annual month of prayer, fasting and reflection. Many mosques and community centers have virtual events, but some are holding in-person prayers.

‘We Are Treated as Animals’ – French Muslim Women on the Proposed Hijab Ban If passed by France's National Assembly, the new legislation will ban under-18s from wearing the head covering in public.

Hasidic, Devout, and Mad as Hell About COVID-19 Many Americans would recognize the dilemma of Reuven, an anonymous Yiddish-magazine editor who is anguished by his community’s moral failures in the pandemic.