Religion

• Holy water
• 'Medical myths' exposed as untrue
• Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Movie
• Crystal healing
• How can limbo just be abolished?
• Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'
• Pope Francis: 'About 2%' of Catholic clergy paedophiles
• Jesus tomb found, says film-maker
• The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050
• Joan of Arc remains 'are fakes'
• The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science
• Exorcism: Vatican course opens doors to 250 priests
• Do more people believe in God in Trump's America?
• US preacher asks followers to help buy fourth private jet
• Nude model's Western Wall photo shoot sparks anger
• Albert Einstein's 'God letter' sells for $2.9m
• Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe
• The preachers getting rich from poor Americans
• Maids Moreton: Ben Field thought he would 'get away with it'
• The Family: 'Raised in a doomsday cult, I entered the real world at 15'
• Catholic Church: Could Pope Francis say 'yes' to married priests?
• Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion?
• How and why did religion evolve?
• Do humans have a ‘religion instinct’?
• Ravi Kumar Atheist: The Indian man fighting to be godless
• Gadhimai: Nepal's animal sacrifice festival goes ahead despite 'ban'
• Plane in US sprinkles 100 gallons of holy water
• Brazil: Netflix told to remove film depicting Jesus as gay
• The 'sorcerer' keeping Mali's marionette tradition alive
• Panama: Seven people found dead after suspected exorcism
• Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop series on Netflix slammed by NHS chief
• Uganda's Kanungu cult massacre that killed 700 followers
• Gedhun Choekyi Niyima: Tibetan Buddhism's 'reincarnated' leader who disappeared aged six
• 'Cannabis burned during worship' by ancient Israelites - study
• Porn star Nacho Vidal held in Spain after man dies in toad-venom ritual
• Burundi albino boy 'dismembered'
• Let the credulous kiss their relics. It's no weirder than idolising Beckham
• Hagia Sophia: Pope 'pained' as Istanbul museum reverts to mosque
• Wish on a Shooting Star
• Woman arrested for naked video on India's Lakshman Jhula bridge
• Vaccine rumours debunked: Microchips, 'altered DNA' and more
• France Islam: Muslims under pressure to sign French values charter
• Why is Hong Kong so superstitious?
• Why some Chinese believe a name change could improve luck
• The insidious attacks on scientific truth
• Sister Abhaya: Indian priest and nun jailed for murder of convent sister
• England’s sleepy ‘Scientology town’
• Tower of London's 'queen' raven Merlina missing
• Romania baptisms: Six-week-old baby's death sparks calls for change
• 'Kenyan police asked if my husband was a sorcerer'
• Coronavirus: Priest providing 'takeaway ashes' for Ash Wednesday
• From The Conversation
• New Christ statue in Brazil's Encantado to be taller than Rio's
• Lourdes: Pilgrims flock to French sanctuary online in their millions
• Real Time with Bill Maher: John Cleese on Political Incorrectness (HBO)
• Girls to break centuries-old German male choir school tradition
• Troubled US teens left traumatised by tough love camps
• The Nigerian priest saving Igbo deities from the bonfires
• Athens priest arrested for acid attack on bishops
• More churches burn down on Canada indigenous land
• LA man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines dies of virus
• Ethiopia’s miraculous underground churches
• Vatican's Cardinal Becciu on trial in $412m fraud case
• An immense mystery older than Stonehenge
• Madhya Pradesh: Minor girls paraded naked in India 'rain ritual'
• Spanish bishop quit for love for erotic writer
• Top US court halts Texas execution of inmate seeking pastor's touch
• Ethiopia: The country where a year lasts 13 months
• The torso in the Thames: A 20-year mystery
• Church sex abuse: Thousands of paedophiles in French Church, inquiry says
• Brian Houston: Hillsong Church founder denies concealing child abuse
• French Church abuse: 216,000 children were victims of clergy - inquiry
• Explosion strikes Afghan mosque during prayers
• When Jesus is used to steal from his flock
• The ultra-violent cult that became a global mafia
• Roman-era 'Good Shepherd' ring found off Israel in ancient shipwreck
• Pope Francis says choosing pets over kids is selfish
• Galileo Galilei
• From God's Perspective. (FULL SHOW on YouTube/Netflix)
• What makes Jerusalem so holy?
• Only one in four Middle East men backs equality, study suggests
• The young man who shook the Catholic Church to its core
• Why people believe weird things | Michael Shermer
• Adnan Oktar: Turkish TV preacher arrested on fraud and abuse charges
• Dalai Lama 'deeply sorry' for remarks about women
• The former monk who runs a $100m meditation firm
• If we made contact with aliens, how would religions react?
• Retired Pope Benedict warns Francis against relaxing priestly celibacy rules
• Retired Pope to be removed as celibacy book author
• Pope Francis rules against ordaining married men in Amazon
• Ricky Gervais And Stephen Go Head-To-Head On Religion
• (9) Sam Harris: Best Arguments against Religion #1 - YouTube
• The myths that hint at past disasters
• Why the world is going crazy—and how to win back our minds | Jamie Wheal | Big Think
• Former Pope Benedict failed to act over abuse, new report finds
• Liberian church stampede kills 29 worshippers in Monrovia
• Catalonia pardons women executed for witchcraft
• Karnataka hijab row deepens as students petition court
• Pakistan: Police hunt for 'healer' who hit nail into woman's head
• One-word gaffe invalidates thousands of US baptisms
• Why is an abuser still working as a priest?
• The sex myth that's centuries old
• Polygamy: Muslim women in India fight 'abhorrent' practice
• Afghanistan: Policing faces, bodies and beards on Kabul streets
• Southern Baptist Convention vilified sex abuse survivors - report
• Port Harcourt: Nigeria church crush leaves 31 dead
• Nigeria Owo church attack: Gunmen kill Catholic worshippers in Ondo
• La Luz del Mundo megachurch leader jailed for child sex abuse
• Aamir Liaquat Hussain: Pakistan's shock televangelist dies at 50
• Roe v Wade: Rifts divide abortion views in Mississippi
• Georgia Guidestones: 'America's Stonehenge' demolished after blast
• Pope Francis: Pontiff says he is 'deeply sorry' to Canadian residential school survivors
• 'Flashy' NYC bishop robbed of $1m in jewellery during live sermon
• How religious worship is boosting conservation in India
• Salman Rushdie: Man arrested after author attacked on stage
• Salman Rushdie: Author on ventilator and unable to speak, agent says
• Polio vaccine in Pakistan: Two policemen guarding vaccinators shot dead
• Netflix: Saudi Arabia and GCC warn streaming giant over violating 'Islamic values'
• Venezuelans on spiritual mountain retreat reported missing
• Lev Tahor: Jewish sect leaders arrested in Mexico jungle raid freed
• Arthur C. Clarke Does Not Believe In The Bermuda Triangle | The Dick Cavett Show
• Reacting To The Assassination of Robert Kennedy | The Dick Cavett Show
• Even nuns watch porn, Pope says, warning of risks
• California's cannabis-growing nuns pray for profits
• Adnan Oktar: TV cult preacher jailed for 8,658 years in Turkey
• Indonesia set to punish sex before marriage with jail time
• South African worshippers swept away in Jukskei river flash flood
• Uncertainty over Iran’s morality police after official's 'disbanded' remarks
• Indonesia passes criminal code banning sex outside marriage
• Samuel Bateman: Polygamous cult leader had 20 wives, FBI says
• Christian nationalists: Wanting to put God into US government
• US pastor robbed on livestream faces fraud and extortion charges
• The British Sign Language project stretching back 2,000 years
• Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at 95
• Anglican Church and UK condemn desecration of Jerusalem graves
• Geneva Bible valued at up to £10k goes under the hammer in Belfast
• Christian missionaries target the birthplace of Buddha in Nepal
• Jesus baptism site makeover aims to draw a million Christians in 2030
• Self-styled spiritual leader John de Ruiter charged with sex crimes
• Asaram Bapu: Indian guru jailed for life in second rape case
• The unruly ancient rituals still practised today
• 'I escaped abusive jungle cult - then rescued my son'
• Bageshwar Dham Sarkar: The Indian guru making headlines over 'miracle' cures
• More than 4,800 victims of sexual abuse uncovered in Portugal's Catholic Church
• Super Bowl Jesus advert draws ire on left and right
• Sara Khadem: Top Iran chess player exiled for refusing headscarf
• Wieambilla shooting: Australia police ambush deemed religious terror attack
• Mozambique pastor dies attempting 40-day Jesus fast
• Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo's cathedral plan stalls amid economic crisis
• Mormon Church fined over claim it hid $32bn investment fund
• Inside the UK's Mormon missionary boot camp
• Amritpal Singh: The self-styled preacher raising fears in India's Punjab
• Hamburg shooting: Seven killed in attack on Jehovah's Witness hall
• Amritpal Singh: Punjab police step up search for controversial preacher
• Two hijab-less Iranian women arrested after man attacks them with yoghurt
• Dalai Lama sorry to young boy after kissing row
• Ricky Gervais on Religion for 10 minutes straight
• Kenya cult deaths: 21 bodies found in investigation into 'starvation cult'
• Kenya cult deaths: The unbearable stench of mass graves
• Kenya cult deaths: Pastor Ezekiel Odero arrested in funeral home probe
• Iran executes two men convicted of blasphemy
• Pope Francis warns pets must not replace children in Italy
• Lori Vallow: US doomsday cult mother convicted of triple murder
• Kenya cult: Children targeted to die first, pastor says
• Oldest most complete Hebrew Bible sells for $38m at auction
• The Satanic Temple: Think you know about Satanists? Maybe you don't
• Utah primary schools ban Bible for 'vulgarity and violence'
• Religious US broadcaster Pat Robertson dies at 93
• Amritsar: The Indian city where no one goes hungry
• Sweden Quran burning sparks anger across Muslim world
• Iran's morality police to resume headscarf patrols
• Afghanistan: Taliban burn ‘immoral’ musical instruments
• Lori Vallow: Cult mum who killed children sentenced to life in prison
• In Pictures: The protectors of a 7,000-year-old faith
• Investigating the 'spiritual healers' sexually abusing women
• Pakistan: Mob burns churches over blasphemy claims
• Stunning photos of a new African wonder
• Russian priest censured for blessing Stalin statue
• Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army
• Gaslighting and shame: Uncovering the stories of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries
• Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from visiting national park
• France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools
• Andrew Tate: Chats in 'War Room' suggest dozens of women groomed
• Violent protests after Quran burning in Sweden
• Somalis with albinism: Pelted with stones and raw eggs
• French state schools turn away dozens of girls wearing Muslim abaya dress
• South Korean cult Grace Road Church members arrested in Fiji
• French shrug off Muslim upset at abaya ban in schools
• Switzerland: Hundreds of sex abuse cases 'tip of the iceberg', say researchers
• VRT-presentatrice Siska Schoeters laat zich ontdopen na "Godvergeten": "Alle banden met de Kerk doorknippen"
• Quest to bring priest charged with torture in Argentina to justice
• Seychelles opposition leader Patrick Herminie charged with witchcraft
• American tourist arrested for smashing Israel Museum statues
• Japan asks court to dissolve 'Moonies' church over Shinzo Abe killing
• Police shoot man in hunt for Brussels gunman
• Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins
• Spanish Church sexual abuse affected 200,000 children, commission finds
• 'Christmas creep': Why holiday candy hits shelves so early
• Bhagwa Love Trap: A new Indian online trend causing real-world harm
• Samuel Paty: Six French teenagers on trial over teacher's murder
• Central Paris attack leaves one dead and one injured
• Denmark passes law to ban Quran burnings
• Nude painting row at French school sparks teacher walkout
• Our Lady of Guadalupe: Pilgrims converge on basilica in Mexico
• Pope says Roman Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples
• Are Jains the original vegans?
• TB Joshua: ‘We thought it was heaven but then terrible things happened’
• TB Joshua: Megachurch leader raped and tortured worshippers, BBC finds
• Illegal New York synagogue tunnel leads to 9 arrests
• Annapoorani: Netflix removes Nayanthara film after backlash from Hindu groups
• Is there life after death? | Sam Harris, Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, & more | Big Think
• Kenya cult leader Paul Mackenzie faces terror charges over mass deaths
• Pope Francis says sexual pleasure is 'a gift from God'
• Why the world needs cults | Jamie Wheal for Big Think
• Jerusalem: Armenian Christians fight controversial land deal
• Ayodhya Ram Mandir: India PM Modi inaugurates Hindu temple on razed Babri mosque site
• Robert Corfield, ex-minister of secretive sect, admits to child sex abuse
• Haji Malang: The Sufi shrine caught up in a religious row in Mumbai
• TB Joshua exposé: YouTube deletes Emmanuel TV channel of disgraced megachurch leader
• Paul Mackenzie: Kenyan cult leader charged with 191 murders
• Canterbury disco: 'Parties can get more people to visit church'
• FBI launches probe into church investigated by BBC
• West Bengal: India court asks for lions’ name change as Hindu sentiments hurt
• Piers Morgan and Oprah Winfrey 'deepfaked' for US influencer's ads
• Burkina Faso mosque attack: Dozens killed during prayers
• Pakistan blasphemy: Student sentenced to death over Whatsapp messages
• Tasseography: The Turkish tradition that's 'as big as Tinder'
• Malaysian convenience store owner charged over 'Allah socks'
• French school head resigns over Paris veil row and death threats
• Israel crisis deepens over ultra-Orthodox draft
• Oldest Christian book goes on sale
• French pupil dies after being beaten near school
• Sydney church stabbing treated as 'terrorist act'
• 'Psychic' conman jailed for swindling 1.3m Americans
• Aida Shakarami: Iran morality police arrests dead protester's sister, mother says