BERLIN (RNS) — A dozen walkers, many of them retirees in wool hats and fleece jackets, gathered in a silent circle in the Grunewald forest, just outside Berlin. “Walk silently through nature and ...

Traditionally religious, pilgrim routes may offer travelers from all walks of life a chance to find inner peace and reconnect with the world. After more than a year of pandemic lockdowns, travelers ...

Like many pilgrims who walk the Camino de Santiago network of pilgrim’s routes, Sherly Cho had no obvious religious motivation. Back in 2018, she took a five-week hiatus from her Korean-Swiss cookery ...

Pilgrimages fell out of favor. “In the Middle Ages, (pilgrimages were) more of an outside thing — you really wanted to know something from God, you wanted to praise him or you wanted to get ...