and other activities are part of the festivities aimed at highlighting ancestral culture. The streets of Ouidah are buzzing with thousands of practitioners of Benin’s traditional religions and ...

Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

Forum 18, a site based in Norway, is one of the few media outlets specializing in coverage of religious freedom.

Father Tito Banchong Thopanhong, Apostolic Administrator of Luang Prabang, who endured imprisonment and hardship to serve his ...

This doesn’t imply, however, that a religious search should begin at random. Rather, you should start the way you would in ...

Closed to outsiders and plagued by addiction, a Vietnam village tuned its radios to a California preacher. It has bloomed ...

Thomas Jefferson had strong views on the separation of church and state, and, based on his writings, it’s likely that he would have opposed any attempt to inject religion into public education.

On behalf of the Vietnamese Defense Ministry, Senior Lieutenant General Le Quang Minh congratulated the Lao People’s Army on its 76th founding anniversary (January 20, 1949 - 2025). He expressed his ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Random Acts of Silliness here in Bozeman is making more magic this week. The studio has ...

The parallels were intriguing: for a lot of tech enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, A.I. has itself become a sort of religion. I wanted to probe deeper into how spirituality and ...

Not long ago I wrote a book about the political science of Moses as written into law in the form of the Ten Commandments. Moses and his people suffered under Pharaoh in Egypt and remedied many of ...