Members of the banned Chinese Falun Gong spiritual movement atage their meditation exercise. (AFP Photo / Kazuhiro Nogi) If the end of the world does indeed happen on December 21, some of the...
In the foothills of Mount Fuji, a festival to the gods of the mountain. “We’re trying to calm the fires of Mt Fuji, you know to stop it erupting.” “There are lots of examples...
A Sri Lankan court has given suspended jail terms to three French tourists for wounding the religious feelings of Buddhists by taking pictures deemed insulting. Two women and one man were detained in the...
(Reuters) – In a loping, crouching run, striking South African miners advance towards a line of police in helmets and flak-jackets who are pointing automatic rifles at them. The police open fire. In less...
Washington (CNN) – A prominent atheist group is using next month’s Democratic National Convention to take aim at the presidential candidates’ religion, putting up billboards targeting Mormonism and Christianity in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Our political...
If you believe in UFOs, you may be in better company than you think. Thirty-six percent of Americans — about 80 million people if the survey applied to the whole country — believe UFOs exist,...
Sci-fi fans are eagerly awaiting Sir Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a quasi-prequel to his 1979 blockbuster film, “Alien” that lands in theaters Friday, June 8. In the film, an Earth-based crew is sent on a...
They have been closely guarded for more than 30 years, but guidelines on how to deal with divine apparitions of the Virgin Mary and “supernatural phenomena” have now been released by the Vatican. The...
NEW YORK – It’s an age-old saying in Hollywood that sex sells, but with consumers finding themselves oversaturated with sexual imagery, today’s top acts are turning to something even more sinful to get our...
(multimedia)It’s possibly the greatest “What if …” in the world. What if the Shroud of Turin really is the burial cloth Jesus was wrapped in . . . and the faint imprint on it,...
