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After the controversies in Indiana and Arkansas, Texas is considering amendments to its own Religious Freedom laws, facing similar controversy. Texas lawmakers and business leaders have…
Buddhism
Good news coming from PlumVillage.org has it that Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Vietnamese Buddhist monk who was inflicted with a deadly brain hemorrhage back in…
Christianity
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a 56-year-old cosmologist and astrophysicist who is well-known for his several science shows, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, StarTalk, and ScienceNow, as well…
Hinduism
A baby girl born in Aligarh, India is getting a lot of attention, as locals believe she is an avatar of Hindu god, Lord Ganesha, due to…
Featured Contributors
Featured Contributor Linda Wieland shares the top 10 facts everyone should know about Scientology. This is a tremendously exciting time to be a Scientologist. We are…
Buddhism
Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka visited Indian Buddhists in New Delhi in a meeting to strengthen the cultural understanding between the two groups. Last month, 50…
Christianity
A new Pew Forum report predicts that the international landscape will change drastically in the next few decades and Islam could be the majority by 2070.…
Christianity
Will Presidential hopeful Rand Paul’s faith be enough to sway the religious conservatives in the Republican party? Senator Rand Paul announced his presidential campaign on April…
Catholicism
For Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina, a local Muslim family specializing in the trade of carving and woodcraft was awarded the honor to work on…
Buddhism
The Donghua Zen Temple of Shaoguan City in China received thousands of applications after its witty ad for job positions went viral on Chinese social media. A…
Buddhism
Professor Kancha Ilaiah says the Hindu ban on beef is a cultural imposition by past and present political leaders. Prof. Kancha Ilaiah wrote a bestseller entitled,…
Judaism
Jorma Kaukonen, a guitarist who is best known for his work on Jefferson Airplane, reflects on his Jewish upbringing and how it brought him to where…