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Christianity
The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) has penned scathing letters to schools for practicing religion.According to many faith-based and secular organizations, there has been a decline…
Buddhism
A Buddhist conference being held November 15-18 in Gautama Buddha’s place of birth, Lumbini, is expected to draw over 400 scholars and monks from roughly 30…
Entertainment
Cook Islands, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, launched a special commemorative coin for the Jain religion’s founder, Lord Adinath. The Cook Islands in…
Agnosticism
USCIRF Chair Katrina Lantos Swett, Commissioner Mary Ann Glendon, and Executive Director Jackie Wolcott with parliamentarians at the launch of the International Parliamentary Coalition to Advance…
WRN Editorial Staff
Nov 13, 2014
Anglicanism
After studying an ancient manuscript, the writers of The Lost Gospel believe they found evidence that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and the two had children. An ancient…
Entertainment
Huffington Post UK released a religion survey with results that shocked and perplexed some Jewish Leaders. A national religion survey conducted exclusively for HuffPostUK revealed that…
Religion News
A recent poll conducted by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not in London has revealed that more UK people believe in ghosts and aliens than in God.…
Entertainment
Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Disgraced opens on Broadway to impressed audiences still contemplating its controversial subject. The play “Disgraced,” written by playwright Ayad Akhtar,…
Bahá'í Faith
On November 12, 1817, Mirza Husayn ‘Ali was born. He would go on to found the world’s youngest monotheistic faith, Baha’i. Today, every November 12, His followers remember…
Catholicism
About 4,000 Christians left the Iraqi city of Mosul for Jordan in the last three months, forced out by Islamic State fighters. With the capturing of…
Catholicism
Attendance is falling so low that New York will close some parishes and merge others. How will the Catholic Church respond to reinvigorate the faithful? As…
Christianity
Interstellar’s philosophical and religious undertones are examined in The Atlantic. The Atlantic has published an article analyzing “the spiritual setting of space,” focusing mostly on the…