In some parts of the world, the probability of rain rises with every day it doesn’t rain, and communities in these places are ...

Gangneung Danoje Preservation Committee performs rainmaking ritual in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon, on Saturday as severe drought disrupts water supplies in Gangneung, a coastal city in Gangwon.

As a multi-year drought worsens across war-torn Syria and neighboring Iraq, residents in northeastern Syria revived a decades-old tradition in the hopes of boosting rainfall, which would provide ...

Indigenous Mayan communities in Guatemala gathered at the sacred Chicabal Lagoon for a centuries-old rain prayer ritual as concerns grow over delayed rainfall and drying crops. The annual ceremony, ...

Organized by the village’s women, the ritual involves collecting foodstuffs from households, preparing a special rain-requesting soup in the mosque, offering collective prayers and supplications, and ...

The Gangneung Danoje Preservation Association holds a rain ritual at Daegwallyeong Sanshindang and Daegwallyeong Guksaseonghwangsa shrines in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, Saturday. The ...

PHUM BOEUNG, Cambodia (AP) — Hundreds of Cambodian villagers on Tuesday took part in a rare traditional guardian spirit ceremony praying for good fortune, rain and prosperity, as they aimed to ...

In a village in Telangana's Jangaon district, residents performed the traditional Kappathalli Aata ritual to invoke rainfall as farmers continue to face severe distress due to a prolonged dry spell ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli farmers re-created a ritual described by a 16th century Jewish scholar in the hopes of bringing rain. The farmers from the Upper Galilee, led by Rabbi Eliyahu Biton, on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a multi-year drought worsens across war-torn Syria and neighboring Iraq, residents in northeastern Syria revived a decades-old ...