A theologian, ethicist and minister has been elected as the first openly queer individual and woman of color to head the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), marking a significant milestone in ...

In Japan, deer roam free as the messengers of Shinto gods. The passage and existence of the Sika deer is carefully protected by religious interests as well as by the state, which regards them as a ...

When Pope Francis recently made a historic three-day trip to Iraq, the birthplace of Abraham, the forefather of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the pontiff considerably broadened his objective of ...

Featured Contributors Abdur Rab and Hasan Mahmud explain how Sharia Law completely violates clear directives of the Quran. Human oppression is part of the human legacy. Sadly, it’s often the State ...

This chart outlines the origins of spiritual awareness (e.g. shamanism & animism), illustrating how these primitive ideologies branched off into more complex belief systems. Eventually they would ...

Based on numbers, the third largest group is the religiously unaffiliated. Four principal religions dominate the world.[/tweetit] These four are followed by approximately 80 percent of the world’s ...

This article is part of a Wikipedia Religious UnReliable Sources series. In today’s digital world, Wikipedia is still the first resource that people turn to, especially when it comes to obtaining ...

Six Religions that have distinguishing dress codes and the symbolism behind them. It is quite difficult to identify an individual’s faith based on appearance alone. But for the heads or leaders of ...

In the spring of 1950, the world was still digging itself out of the rubble of World War II, a conflict that had advanced the technology of wreaking death and destruction to an apocalyptic level—a man ...

Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, the detestable, egotistical weatherman in Groundhog Day. The 1993 film shows Murray repeatedly experiencing a single day multiple times. Although the movie belongs to ...

The American Values Atlas project has determined the metro areas with the largest percentage of Evangelical Christians in America. The Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Atlas (AVA) ...

Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists, Scientologists, and members of other faiths and beliefs gathered at St. Basil Catholic Church in Los Angeles for the 9th Annual Interfaith Solidarity March ...