Worshippers on Thailand's Phuket island have celebrated a nine-day Taoist festival, with many piercing their faces with metal spikes and walking on hot coals to show devotion to deities. PHUKET, ...

If you’re squeamish you may want to look away now. As burning incense fills the air, devotees in trances force skewers and swords through their cheeks as part of a vegetarian festival in Thailand. The ...

As burning incense fills the air, devotees in trances force skewers and swords through their cheeks in ritualistic acts underpinning southern Thailand's colourful -- and seemingly painful -- ...

Jampen Deebuk claimed that there is no pain once the Gods enter your body. These comments were made after puncturing the cheeks of a young devotee with metal skewers at Thailand's bloody vegetarian ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - At just before 7 a.m. on Tuesday, the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple in Singapore bustles with an unusual crowd of devotees. Their cheeks pierced with metal spears, the skin ...

PHUKET: Vegetarianism and gruesome body-piercing may seem an unlikely combination, but the two represent the peak of devotion at a bloody and spectacular annual Thai festival which runs until ...

The festival of Gajan is celebrated mostly in the state of West Bengal in eastern India, and coincides with the Bengali New Year. Devotees offer sacrifices and perform acts of devotion during the ...

Locals in Madhyapur Thimi today observed the ‘tongue-piercing festival’ on the occasion of Bisket jatra with Buddha Krishna Baga Shrestha piercing his tongue for the fourth consecutive year. Before ...

Hundreds of thousands of Malaysian Hindus, some piercing their skin with hooks and skewers to show their devotion, gathered in temples across the country on Monday to mark Thaipusam. The annual Hindu ...

PHUKET: Worshippers in this island resort province have celebrated a nine-day Taoist festival, with many piercing their faces with metal spikes and walking on hot coals to show devotion to deities.