A bid to demolish one of the former meeting places of a Christian sect in Scotland has been rejected. The Glasite Chapel or ...

Until courts wrested control of the towns from a polygamous sect whose leader and prophet, Warren Jeffs, was imprisoned for ...

In the modern world, countries which seldom came together in the past can communicate over the internet, and their citizens can travel to other countries. The era of one-church states is over.

The prairie dresses, walled compounds and distrust of outsiders that were once hallmarks of two towns on the Arizona-Utah ...

Since dharma in our tradition has never meant religion in the narrow sense, dharma nirapekshata unnecessarily conveys indifference to a society’s moral values ...

An art exhibition about the Shakers, also known as The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, would naturally have furniture. The Institute of Contemporary Art has plenty: ladder ...

A group of former Benedictine nuns have called a shocking report about widespread spiritual abuse within the Sacré Coeur ...

The prairie dresses, closed-off compounds and deep suspicion of outsiders are mostly gone now, but the story of transformation in Colorado City, Arizona, ...

With jarring regularity, the gates of an Indian high-security prison swing open for a prominent guru jailed for life for murder, freeing him to preach virtue to the millions of followers he holds in ...

Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown's multicultural past. She believes restoring ...

They were a church cult – whatever they called themselves. They kept me locked away because I knew what they were doing was ...