With less than two months in office following his election to the papacy in May, Pope Leo XIV has been formally invited to ...

Likewise, a rogue Jesuit priest named Blas Valera advocated for learning from the quipus. Also half Spanish and half Inca, Valera proclaimed that the Incas were the real rulers of Peru.

Beyond Rio’s Carnival and Oktoberfest, there’s a world of wild, whimsical, and deeply meaningful festivals waiting to be ...

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think about nature,” asks Aurora Radich, a nature therapist in northern ...

This is Q’eswachaka. The last Incan Bridge. It stands over 12,000 feet above sea level and spans 30 meters over the Apurimac River down in a majestic canyon never found by the Spanish. It was ...

2. Issues Underlying the Manifested Problems of Priests These typical priest-problems, such as substance abuse, depression, a variety of sexual acting-out, anxiety, mismanagement of money, and several ...

A CHamoru priest originally from Sinajana was among the first batch of priests that the first American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, ordained early Saturday, Vatican time.

A group of Orthodox churches is suing to block a new law in Washington State that requires priests to violate the seal of confession and report incidents of child abuse. In May, Washington’s ...

On June 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., seven Dominican brothers were ordained to the priesthood.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half ...

On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, more than a thousand years ago, one of the most powerful and enigmatic civilizations of the Andes developed: the Tiwanaku. Considered by ...

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