Gregory Allen Madeya (pictured), a 69-year-old former Catholic priest, has been arrested in Florida and accused of stealing more than…

Organized religion may be humanity's most ingenious scam: control the victims, take their money, and convince them to attack anyone who tries to expose the trick.

Diseases are bad for individuals and bad for society. They consume resources, damage economies, overwhelm healthcare systems, and sometimes…

In Hulu’s “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” half of the show’s reality TV cast are unceremoniously disinvited from their friend’s baby blessing party. Their alleged transgression? Not being Mo...

Buddhism has traditionally offered humanity a simple message: let go of attachment to material possessions, sexual desire, and the endless…

Austria has officially begun enforcing a nationwide ban on Islamic headscarves (hijabs) in public and private schools for girls under the…

The Taliban have achieved what many governments, pharmaceutical companies, and disappointed parents have failed to accomplish: they have…

Catholic bishops oppose a new school timetable that puts religion at the start or end of the day.

Britain says child abuse must be reported. Apparently, God still gets a private line.

Religions promise eternity – but apparently some people get thousands of years more of it than others.

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The state supreme court has ruled that clergy who learn about child abuse through “confidential” religious conversations may keep the…

Vote for me or burn in hell.

Serial killers claiming divine instructions are a bit like bad Wi-Fi: unreliable, invisible, and somehow always causing problems.

Remember our recent article, “No Gas for Russia: Saint’s Relics Destroyed”? The one about Russia’s brilliant solution to its growing fuel…

For centuries, we’ve been told that without God, humans would immediately devolve into axe-wielding maniacs looting grocery stores and…

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Five years of Taliban rule, what has changed? On the fifth anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan, Isobel Yeung reports on what life is like for women and children. New figures from Save the Childr...

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Ninety tonnes of holy garbage.

A ban on full-face veils is a defense of an open society

If this was part of God's plan, it's reasonable to ask what the plan actually was.

The suspect in what German authorities described as an “Islamist terror attack” at Berlin’s Pride celebrations was shot dead by police following a major manhunt Sunday.

The anti-monopoly principle behind religious freedom.

Islamic scholars declare cryptocurrency "haram."

Apparently, one small box of medieval bones was all that stood between the Kremlin and an empty fuel tank.

A new frontier in gender segregation.

Catholic doctrine recognizes demons and exorcisms. Aliens remain a theological work in progress.

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A society that celebrates the idea of a perfect, all-powerful ruler may find authoritarian promises less difficult to accept.

When Sharia declares affection more dangerous than cruelty

Why prayer looks suspiciously like the posture of someone who has already lost the fight.

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