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Art
Call it the return of the deities. After being stolen and smuggled overseas for years, dozens of statues depicting Nepal’s revered gods and goddesses are being…
Geoffrey Peters
Feb 17, 2024
Catholicism
For the first time in Super Bowl history, an ad for a Catholic prayer app has created history by generating a record spike in downloads. Called…
Alexei Danchenkov
Feb 17, 2024
Entertainment
The long-awaited Scientology ad for Super Bowl LVIII appeared before a worldwide audience of billions. The church has made a name for itself with its life-affirming…
Books
Dictionaries, thesauruses, the Guinness Book of World Records, numerous National Geographic science books, “Anne Frank—The Diary of A Young Girl,” “Schindler’s List”—you won’t find these or…
Catholicism
The 15-year-old boy threw rocks and racial epithets at a group of black children. “Kill the n*****s!” he screamed as he terrorized them. The resulting civil…
Geoffrey Peters
Jan 8, 2024
Entertainment
Widely considered the hub of global entertainment, Hollywood exerts a powerful influence on people’s worldviews by helping shape their cultural norms, values and beliefs through efforts…
Entertainment
Tom Cruise. John Travolta. Kristie Alley. Anne Archer. Giovanni Ribisi. There is no dearth of celebrities in showbiz who owe a debt to Scientology for helping…
Christianity
“These are truly the last days,” groused worship leader and Christian music icon, Sean Feucht, on social media. The subject of his ire: the collaboration of…
Christianity
Jonathan Roumie, the actor who plays Jesus in The Chosen, the popular television series billed as the largest crowd-funded media project in history, has been busy making public appearances. …
Geoffrey Peters
Jul 12, 2023
Celebrity
Early in his career, lead singer of U2, Bono, announced to his manager that, out of devotion to the Shalom Christian Community, he, along with two…
Religion News
Once a year a large religious event occurs in this country. It is a religious event because it brings people of all cultures together as one…
Entertainment
The 1998 Tony award-winning musical Parade is heading back to Broadway. The show depicts the story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager who became the…