The Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a real thing and a woman in Massachusetts gets to wear a colander on her head in a government-issued photo as a result. (File that under “sentences I ...

August 15, 2018 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - MAY, 22: Unidentified participants play scene in defile during Zinneke Parade on May 22, 2010 in Brussels. This parade is a free biennial local artistic event open ...

Easter has come and gone. For some of us, it was a day of genuine rejoicing about the whole “Christ is risen” thing, but for most of us, it was simply a day to spend with our families, eat good food ...

It's official: The Constitution does not give prisoners the right to wear a pirate costume. Or so U.S. District Court Judge John M. Gerrard ruled this week, responding to a Nebraska man's claim that ...

Congratulations to 16-year-old North Buncombe High School student Bryan Killian for standing up—and even dressing up with an eye patch and pirate’s inflatable sword—for freedom of speech, religion and ...

Flickr user Jennifer Morrow captioned this 2010 photograph: "May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage this holiday season." (Jennifer Morrow/Creative Commons) Dear followers of His Flying Noodleness ...

People who consider themselves pastafarian may not wear a colander on their head for their passport picture ruled the highest administrative court of the Netherlands. Pastafarianism — whose followers ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman says she encountered only brief resistance when she recently had her driver’s license photo taken while wearing a colander on her head as a religious statement. Asia ...

A parody religious group who believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, may become an officially recognised religion, after court battle The Worshipping of an invisible flying spaghetti monster may ...

Sir, – Rev Patrick G Burke is exercised over whether Pastafarianism is a religion (June 18th). He tells us: "It is not. It is fiction for the sole purpose of mocking religion." None of us likes having ...