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  • How a massive all-granite, hand-carved Hindu temple ended up on Hawaii's lush Kauai Island

    November 21, 2023 - 5:51 PM

    KAPAA, Hawaii (AP) — It is the only all-granite, hand-carved Hindu temple in the West built without power tools or electricity, and it's nestled on one of the smaller islands in Hawaii surrounded by lush gardens and forests.

  • What is Bodhi Day? And when do Buddhists celebrate it?

    December 07, 2023 - 10:14 PM

    Buddhists around the world are celebrating Bodhi Day.

  • In the pope’s homeland, more Argentines are seeking spiritual answers beyond the church

    October 06, 2023 - 2:08 AM

    CAPILLA DEL MONTE, Argentina (AP) — In the pope’s homeland, there’s a woman who believes in angels and calls them aliens. Another proudly identifies as a witch. And there’s a spiritual guru so turned off by the Vatican’s opulence that he left the church to help others connect spiritually outside organized religion.

  • In secular Japan, what draws so many to temples and shrines? Stamp collecting and tradition

    October 06, 2023 - 1:43 AM

    TOKYO (AP) — Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is getting a Goshuin, a stamp with elegant calligraphy that shrines provide for a fee to certify the visit.

  • Minnesota Buddhist temple opens up sacred dance troupe

    February 11, 2023 - 6:10 AM

    HAMPTON, Minn. (AP) — The Buddhist community anchored by an ornate temple complex here in the Minnesota farmland is trying a new way to ensure its faith and ancestral culture stay vibrant for future generations -- an open call for the sacred dance troupe.

  • China rings in Year of Rabbit with most COVID rules lifted

    January 22, 2023 - 2:55 AM

    BEIJING (AP) — People across China rang in the Lunar New Year on Sunday with large family gatherings and crowds visiting temples after the government lifted its strict “zero-COVID” policy, marking the biggest festive celebration since the pandemic began three years ago.

  • 'It's about time': Celebrations of Diwali illuminate NYC

    October 24, 2022 - 2:05 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The week dawned gloomily in New York, but the drab mist was little match for the holiday at hand: Diwali, the festival of lights that symbolizes the triumph over darkness.

  • Nepal's holy Bagmati River choked with black sewage, trash

    August 17, 2022 - 12:05 AM

    KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — High on a mountain in the Himalayas, pristine drops fall from the mouth of a tiger statue installed at a stream thought to form the headwaters of the Bagmati River, long revered as having the power to purify souls. From there it wends its way downhill past verdant forests and merges with other waterways, irrigating fields of rice, vegetables and other crops that are a livelihood for many Nepalese.

  • On Lunar New Year, Chinese offer prayers at temples

    February 01, 2022 - 3:39 AM

    BEIJING (AP) — Chinese people rang in the Lunar New Year on Tuesday despite pandemic restrictions, as small crowds gathered at temples to offer traditional prayers for the Year of the Tiger.

  • Ginkgo grew with dinosaurs, and is still worth growing

    November 23, 2021 - 4:45 AM

    There are some trees whose showiness does not end once they’ve lost their leaves in autumn. Some trees have an attractive bony framework that is then revealed. Ginkgo tree, for instance.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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