Reportage Religion

Pilgrimage festival on Ganga Sagar
Pilgrimage festival on Ganga Sagar
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On a normally uninhabited island at the mouth of the Ganges, every year more than a million Hindu pilgrims congregate to bathe in the holy water on one auspicious morning. Additionally, more or less holy Sadhus, merchants, beggars and preachers of...

Mount Athos
Mount Athos
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The Greek peninsula Athos forms the eastern finger of the Chalkidiki. Beside Greek orthodox monasteries and hermitages there is a Russian, a Serbian and a Romanian monastery. For male Greek citizens it is quite easy to visit Agion Oros – the holy...

Voodoo in Saut d'Eau
Voodoo in Saut d'Eau
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This photo report was made in the Haitian place of pilgrimage Saut d'Eau. Here Catholicism and voodoo are deeply intertwined. Hunsis – initiated voodoo-followers – from all over the country get together to worship the spirits at the holy waterfall....