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Catholicism
Kristin Szremski, 53-year-old award-winning journalist, converted from Christianity to Islam and took the pilgrimage to Mecca, her first Hajj. The Hajj is a mandatory religious pilgrimage…
Entertainment
SakeOne brewery blessed by Reverend Koichi Barrish in a unique and sacred Shinto ritual. SakeOne, a large sake supplier located in the Oregon, was recently blessed…
Christianity
Reverend Rick Cole, a pastor from California, started living on the streets to raise money for a homeless charity, Sacremento Steps Forward. He raised more than…
Atheism
In just under 400 words, Weingarten compares the relationship of a pet and his owner to that of a human being and a deity in his…
Bahá'í Faith
New film To Light A Candle examines the persecution of Baha’is in Iran. For millions of people around the world, the term Baha’i will have little…
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Christianity
Monday blues got you down? This dance off between a Mormon missionary and a Michael Jackson impersonator will cheer you up. Elder Gus Garcia showed some…
Issues
Stating their religion is vital to their rehabilitation, prisoners in AZ have filed a class-action lawsuit. A few days ago, the Judge Leslie Kobayashi awarded over…
Ethics
Last week, actor Ben Affleck took issue with Bill Maher’s remarks about Islam during an appearance on Maher’s show, Real Time. The interesting development from this…
Atheism
Data mining done on the social network has some surprising results. A recent study led by Lu Chen from Wright State University in Dayton, OH titled…
Catholicism
In modern society, an individual is almost forced to side between science and religion. However, some people, including the Vatican Astronomer, feel that religion and science…
Agnosticism
The origins of spiritual awareness mapped on “The Evolutionary Tree Of Religion Map.” This chart outlines the origins of spiritual awareness (e.g. shamanism & animism), illustrating…
Agnosticism
“Secularism is probably the one big issue for our century. This century is not, as many still think, marked by a religious or spiritual revival. What…