Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India and for Hindus in particular.

The 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans.

Buddha's birthday is an important holiday in several countries in Asia where there are large Buddhist populations.

A group of Buddhist faith leaders and community members gathered in the city of Antioch, California, for the “first national Buddhist memorial service and pilgrimage in response to anti-Asian hate.”.

Families offered flowers and dolls, popcorn and juice boxes to the children massacred at a day care center in Thailand.

A famed extreme skier from the United States who was killed after falling from one of the world’s tallest mountains was on Sunday given a traditional funeral at a Sherpa cremation ground as Buddhist monks officiated over a ceremony attended by family, friends and government officials.

Christian clergy have long dominated the chaplaincy in the United States.

Shira Kline, a director of worship for Lab/Shul, a Jewish community-based organization, leads a group in song during an interfaith gathering outside of the Judson Memorial Church near Washington Square Park in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. Muslims, Jews, Christians and Buddhists came together to show solidarity among faith communities as the country awaits the final result of the U.S. presidential election. “We’ve been here before," Lewis said outside the Judson Memorial Church near Washington Square Park. The group of about 20 broke into a call-and-response led by Lewis, who pumped her right fist in the air. Chris Long, assistant minister of the Community Church of New York closed his eyes and lifted his palms.

Buddhist monk Wirathu, center, gestures to his followers at a police station in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday Nov. 2, 2020. Wirathu, a nationalist Buddhist monk in Myanmar noted for his inflammatory rhetoric, has surrendered to police, who have been seeking his arrest for over a year for insulting comments he made about the countrys leader, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. The surrender of the monk Wirathu came just days ahead of a general election on Sunday which Suu Kyi’s ruling National League for Democracy party is expected to win. His appeal Monday was seen as another endorsement of the USDP, the main opposition party in parliament and the sole serious challenger to Suu Kyi’s NLD. Under Myanmar law, he would have to be defrocked by Buddhist authorities before he could be arrested.