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For the first time ever, a Buddhist same-sex wedding ceremony was performed in Taiwan, marking an important milestone in the journey toward legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Asia.
Louisiana mayor Bobby Jindal's religious school voucher program is experiencing opposition from what might be seen as an unlikely source: a Baptist preacher in Monroe, Louisiana named Rev. C. Welton Gaddy.
Chris Harrison, host of the reality television series The Bachelor, has become the latest celebrity to perform a wedding using his ULC online ordination.
Gun violence seems to be reaching epidemic proportions in the United States. On Sunday, 5 August, a man shot to death six people at the Wisconsin Sikh Temple, just weeks after the Colorado cinema gun massacre.
It turns out Stone Age men may not have been the stoic, macho, callous wooly mammoth hunters we envision them as. A new book suggests that ancient men were actually very in touch with their "feminine side".
After an arduous legal battle, a Universal Life Church minister has been denied a permit for a "Goddess Temple" on property he owns in Chico, California. The Butte County Board of Supervisors ruled against the permit.
Ministers say the darnedest things. In a sermon to his congregation at Knollwood Church in Mobile, Alabama, Pastor Aaron Fruh declared that God caused the Great Flood because we practice gay marriage.
This past week saw a terrible tragedy in Colorado. Our hearts go out to those touched by this horrific and senseless event, and we pray for a sound recovery both physically, and psychologically.
If you knew somebody who suffered a violent crime because of her sex, how would you take action? This is the question that a group of women's-rights advocates from Central America are trying to answer.
Pretty much every religion has at least one custom that might seem strange or bizarre to those of other faiths. Here are some of the weirdest and strangest oddities and customs from faiths around the world.
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