On a plain west of Yerevan, beneath the distant snows of Mount Ararat, stands a cathedral that helped give Christianity one of its very first national homes. Etchmiadzin is the

Source: Pixabay Fátima, in central Portugal, is one of the great Marian pilgrimage sites of the Catholic world, visited by millions each year since the apparitions of the Virgin Mary

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Source: Pixabay Kairouan, in the heart of Tunisia, is one of the most important holy cities in the Islamic world and a founding centre of the faith in North Africa.

Source: Pixabay Knock, in County Mayo, is Ireland’s national Marian shrine and one of the world’s recognised international shrines, commemorating an apparition reported in 1879. Each year well over a

Source: Pixabay Konya, home to the shrine of the poet and mystic Rumi, is one of the great spiritual destinations of the Islamic world and a treasure house of Seljuk

In the highlands of northern Ethiopia, eleven medieval churches were carved straight down into the living rock — a feat of faith and engineering unlike anything else in the Christian

Source: Pixabay Loreto, in Italy’s Marche region, is home to one of the Catholic world’s most revered Marian shrines: the Basilica of the Holy House, which encloses a small stone

Source: Pixabay Loreto has been a pilgrimage destination for more than seven centuries, and visiting today still feels like stepping into a long tradition. The town is small and easily

Source: Pixabay Lourdes, in the French Pyrenees, is one of the most important Marian pilgrimage sites in the world, visited by millions each year since the apparitions of the Virgin