February 18, 2025 • Pope Francis has pneumonia in both lungs, according to the Vatican. There's concern about the ability of the 88-year-old pontiff to fight off the infection. February 18, 2025 ...

Opinion Columnist. This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.” My parents ate health food in my youth, in the days before Whole Foods was ...

National and royal flags fly outside religious sites in Thailand, Turkey, the U.S. and Israel. (Clockwise from top left: Vera Tikhonova, Westend61, Samuel Corum and Paul Souders, all via Getty Images) ...

The Brockhouse Collection, one of the most comprehensive collections of taxidermy in the Midwest, will be donated to three ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This past weekend, the Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles (MMCC) responded to a call on a rare pygmy sperm whale struggling in the surf at Dockweiler State Beach ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Somewhere in the world, a meal, ritual, or offering is being prepared in religious observance—most likely by the ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Friday said it will decide whether Oklahoma can create the nation’s first religious charter school in a case that could continue a streak of rulings in recent ...

In the dense mangroves of Isla Escudo de Veraguas, a small island off the coast of Panama, resides one of the world’s most endearing and enigmatic creatures: the Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth (Bradypus ...

There comes a point in every child’s life when they ask where babies come from. And for some reason, parents turn to the story of storks.

Tulsi Gabbard, during her Director of National Intelligence confirmation hearing, defends her Hindu faith, emphasizing religious freedom as enshrined in the US Constitution. She criticizes certain ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...