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Ralph Gedeon was taking classes at a Port-au-Prince engineering school when a massive earthquake rocked the island nation on Jan. 12, 2010. (5/18/14) A 26-year-old Haitian…
Entertainment
Jewish holiday Lag BaOmer begins this year on Saturday, May 17. It is a time of both joy and sorrow for the Jewish people. Lag BaOmer…
Catholicism
A new report from the PEW Religion & Public Life Project supports the increasing shift in religious identity within America. This time the focus is on…
Entertainment
Former Southern Baptist preacher, Jason Eden, explains his change in religious beliefs and coming out publicly about it on Facebook in the article “Losing My Religion…
Entertainment
Writer Joshua Dubler has published a book, Down in the Chapel, about “the most religiously ecelctic sliver of real estate in the history of the world”—a…
Buddhism
Wesak, or Vesak, also known as Buddha Day, is a day for Buddhists to celebrate Siddhartha Gautama’s birth, enlightenment, and death. The day is one marked…
Anglicanism
Mark Andrew (top left) and Bishop Gene Robinson (right and bottom left) during their civil ceremony in 2008 First openly gay Episcopal Bishop, Gene Robinson announced…
Christianity
The realms of religion and sports are certainly intertwined, but there are some that want to separate them completely. There are at present two current news…
Catholicism
UN Committee weighs case to consider Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandals as torture. The Vatican drew the attention of the United Nations Committee overseeing the Convention…
Ethics
The international community is coming together in support of the recently kidnapped Nigerian girls, but the situation remains dire. It has been over two weeks now…
Christianity
This Monday the Supreme Court ruled that opening a city council or other public board meeting with a prayer is Constitutional. They ruled that judges do…
Islam
Opinion by Arsalan Iftikhar, originally posted as a special to CNN Hey Boko Haram, have you read the Quran lately? Most of the 1.6 billion Muslims…