Treasure found in a royal Anglo-Saxon burial site in the North East is to remain in the region after a cash gift was announced yesterday.
The stunning mid-Seventh Century jewellery was discovered on a coastal clifftop site at Loftus in Redcar and Cleveland.
In a dig led by North East archaeologist Steve Sherlock, gold brooches were found in five high-status female graves and a sword in a mal
A Kentucky girl needed counseling after her class at Pulaski County High School watched a short film that showed images of violence allegedly committed by Muslims, the student’s father said.
Bill Cruey said his daughter has been pulled from the class after seeing images of beheadings, children being injured and dead bodies interspersed with readings from the Quran.
Cruey told WYMT-TV in Haza
Americans who don’t identify with any religion are now 15% of the USA, but trends in a new study shows they could one day surpass the nation’s largest denominations including Catholics, now 24% of the nation.
American Nones: Profile of the No Religion Population, to be released today by Trinity College, finds this faith-free group already includes nearly 19% of U.S. men and 12% of women. Of t
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The daughter of Laurie Cabot, Salem’s “official witch,” is now wanted on a warrant after defaulting in a court case in which she’s accused of stealing money from her mother.
Jody Cabot, 49, who now lives in Hull, was supposed to appear in Salem District Court yesterday for a status hearing in her case, which involves charges of larceny and forgery dating to 2007.
Ago Obi, Ago Obi, Ago Obi
The prayers begin for Obi, the system of divination from the Yoruba religion to obtain Yes and No answers to questions in various levels of intensity and meaning. This system, crucial to all in the African religious concepts under the major heading of Ifa and their various levels of dilution under the categories of Lukumi and Santeria, are a methodology of the wa
GENEVA (Reuters) - Murder and persecution of women and children accused of being witches is spreading around the world and destroying the lives of millions of people, experts said Wednesday.
The experts — United Nations officials, civil society representatives from affected countries and non-governmental organization (NGO) specialists working on the issue — urged governments to acknowledge the extent of the persecution.
Aides to U.N. special investigators on women’s rights and on summary executions said killings and violence against alleged witch women — often elderly people — were becoming common events in countries ranging from South Africa to India.
And community workers from Nepal and Papua New Guinea told the seminar, on the fringes of a session of the U.N.’s 47-member Human Rights Council, that “witch-hunting” was now common, both in rural communities and larger population centres.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Murder and persecution of women and children accused of being witches is spreading around the world and destroying the lives of millions of people, experts said Wednesday.
The experts — United Nations officials, civil society representatives from affected countries and non-governmental organization (NGO) specialists working on the issue — urged governments to acknowledge the extent of the persecution.
Aides to U.N. special investigators on women’s rights and on summary executions said killings and violence against alleged witch women — often elderly people — were becoming common events in countries ranging from South Africa to India.
And community workers from Nepal and Papua New Guinea told the seminar, on the fringes of a session of the U.N.’s 47-member Human Rights Council, that “witch-hunting” was now common, both in rural communities and larger population centres.
There is no document of civilisation that is not at the same time a document of barbarism,” said Walter Benjamin, German critic, meaning that the Europe we pride ourselves on, for its fine arts etc, is also the Europe of war, exploitation etc. To which somebody retorted, vice versa: “There is no document of barbarism that is not at the same time a document of civilisation.”
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The chairwoman of the University of South Florida’s religious studies department says the recent discovery of headless animals may sound like the result of religious rituals, but appearances can be deceiving.
Volunteers cleaning up the shore along the Courtney Campbell Causeway Saturday discovered a decapitated goat, two decapitated chickens, a machete, and what is described as a voodoo pole.
