Tag: religious festival
Myanmar devotees climb ‘500 Duck Mountain’ for full-moon festival
The full-moon that marks the end of the rainy season is celebrated across Myanmar in explosions of color, with fireworks, and lanterns
Families ruptured by Myanmar’s junta observe Harvest Moon Festival with heavy...
The Thadingyut Festival is a time when people usually visit with parents and elderly relatives to pay their respects
Cambodia’s Hun Sen cuts Buddhist festival short as COVID-19 cases rise
Cambodia canceled the festival in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but Hun Sen previously said that this year festivals could continue
Cambodia halts ‘Festival of the Dead’ after COVID outbreak
Cambodia largely avoided the spread of the pandemic last year but surging infections since have seen more than 105,000 cases
India restricts religious festivals over new COVID surge fears
"The third wave is not coming, it is already here," Mumbai's mayor Kishori Pednekar told reporters on Tuesday
Photos: Philippine diocese holds Marian festival amid typhoon
The Catholic faithful in the Diocese of Borongan celebrated its traditional “Padul-ong Festival” even as Typhoon “Pakhar” made landfall
Malaysian sells COVID-19 vaccine mock-ups made of paper to honor the...
About 20% of Malaysia's 32 million people practice Buddhism, the second-most prevalent religion in the country
Forego ‘fiestas,’ religious gatherings to avoid spread of COVID, Filipino Catholics...
A 'fiesta' is commonly about the celebration of a city's or a village's patron saint, or of harvest especially during the month of May
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