The Guambía communities requested a program that would recognize and value their own culture, including their language, history and ancestral practices.
Shepherds' extreme vulnerability to bad weather conditions, diseases and other adversities such as theft, wars or looting led to the creation of a whole protection system, based on ancestral practices and rituals, to safeguard them from the hazards they were exposed to in their jobs.
Spirituality can be sought not only through traditional organized cultural and ancestral practices, but also through ecological (environmental) spirituality.
The United Nations General Assembly has therefore declared 2013 as the "International Year of Quinoa", in recognition of ancestral practices of the Andean people, who have managed to preserve quinoa in its natural state as food for present and future generations, through ancestral practices of living in harmony with nature.
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the 'International Year of Quinoa', in recognition of ancestral practices of the Andean people, who have managed to preserve quinoa in its natural state as food for both present and future generations.
Indian Canyon allows Natives to reclaim their heritage and implement their ancestral beliefs and practices into their lives.
In Utah, Indian tribes hailed the Obama's Bears Ears move as one that would honor their ancestral lands and religious practices.
It originally comprised people who had been raised in Spain, Portugal, France, or Italy as Christians and who had fled to Amsterdam to escape persecution and to practice their ancestral religion freely.
The government says that the convention contravenes the Bolivian constitution, which states that the country is obliged to preserve and protect the chewing of coca leaves as a cultural heritage and ancestral practice.
The first story is about Abraham's father Azar, who could not conceive of a world beyond ancestral practice and actively thwarted his son's religious mission.
