At least 48 people, including two policemen, were injured Friday in the annual daylong Gotmaar Mela which the authorities in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district were unable to stop despite a ban on the ritual stone hurling at one another.
The administration banned the ritual following directives of the state Human Rights Commission and offered the participants its full support in holding any o
A judge has ruled in the case of whether an Ohio teen who ran away from her parents for religious freedom can remain in Florida.
A number of activists protested outside the Orange County Courthouse Friday in anticipation of the hearing. They said Rifqa Bary, 17, will be the victim of an honor killing if she is sent back to her parents. They said Bary’s safety is their primary concern.
They w
American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, imprisoned since 1977 for the deaths of two FBI agents, has been denied parole after authorities decided that releasing him would diminish the seriousness of his crime, a federal prosecutor said Friday.
Peltier, who claims the FBI framed him, will not be eligible for parole again until July 2024, when he will be 79 years old.
U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigl
The nation’s largest Lutheran denomination took openly gay clergy more fully into its fold Friday, as leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to lift a ban that prohibited sexually active gay and lesbian people from serving as ministers.
Under the new policy, individual ELCA congregations will be allowed to hire homosexuals as clergy as long as they are in a committed relati
There are more than 300 million of us in the United States, and sometimes it seems like we’re all friends on Facebook. But the sad truth is that Americans are lonelier than ever. Between 1985 and 2004, the number of people who said there was no one with whom they discussed important matters tripled, to 25 percent, according to Duke University researchers. Unfortunately, as a new study linking wome
LOVE THEM - By Becky Pugh
I long ago did away with Diet Coke, I don’t mind giving up processed ham and smoking is clearly for fools. But the one pleasure I refuse to surrender whether or not there is truth in the reports that it carries a risk of cancer is my love of scented candles.
Exotic, luxurious and peaceful, to me they are part of the winding-down process of any day. They represen
Hundreds will travel to Dover this weekend for the annual Delmarva Pagan Pride Festival, but some local critics say they do not welcome the group.
Organizer Ivo Dominguez Jr. was preparing for the event on Wednesday.
“It’s really a day where we have people from different magical and esoteric religious backgrounds come together. We have speakers; we have music; we have vendors; we have kids’
When Tracy Logsdon discovered he could dowse for water, he felt a sensation like an electric shock.
A self-described skeptic, Logsdon was watching as friends tried to dowse for water on some acreage so they could dig a well.
“They were walking all over that property looking for a well,” he said. “Evidently, neither one of them had the ability to use the rods. They were getting nowhere. Of co
Bloods, Crips, Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings and vampires!? Believe it! The Oklahoma Gang Investigators Association has more than neighborhood street gangs to deal with.
At Wednesday’s OGIA seminar, law enforcement learned about the underground world of occult crime. Guest speaker Don Rimer spent over three decades as police officer in Virginia, where he discovered crimes involving cult ac
It was a chilling discovery in an east Houston cemetery. A family visiting a dearly departed father finds evidence of someone trying to meddle with spirits.
Among the items found at their father’s gravesite at the Evergreen Cemetery in east Houston were voodoo dolls with pins stuck inside them.
Pilar Martinez, Jr. still doesn’t know exactly what happened at his father’s grave. What he does k
