Many people will be living this week in the symbol of Holy Week. For most of the Christian world, Holy Week began on Sunday, April 10, with the observance of Palm Sunday, and will end next Sunday ...

Awa, a shaman who practised the indigenous religion of Nunavut, Canada, made the black-and-white parka from caribou skin in the 1920s, and decorated it with holy symbols to protect him from drowning.