A few days ago, the picture of a dismembered tree on my Facebook feed stopped me mid-scroll. It had a link to a news article attached: “200-year-old banyan tree felled in Madaripur over “bid’ah” ...

Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should ...

On the rural islands of Nagasaki, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns, and martyred missionaries ...

A person walks past the One-Pillar Torii Gate at Sannō Shrine, the only gate remaining of four gates after the 1945 atomic ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year ...

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India and Pakistan entered a third day of intensifying military hostilities Residents are seen through the windshield of a bus damaged by a cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan in ...

Photos of the grisly aftermath of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ brutal hotel attack on Cassie Ventura have been released. Prosecutors presented the jury with the images on Wednesday as Ventura, 38 ...

"Social media are everywhere in our daily lives, and some people display problematic, excessive use of these platforms. We found that this overuse is associated with a greater tendency to believe ...

Multiple fire agencies battled the blaze into the night. You can see photos and video of the fire here. Photos of Nottoway fire Firefighters from Baton Rouge operate Aerial 3 as flames engulf ...