Topic: Religion

What the Data Says About How America Celebrates Easter

Reuters

This Sunday is Easter. If you live in Mississippi, you're probably going to church. If you're Mormon, you're most likely to know what the holiday represents. If you're evangelical, you're most likely to think you'll live to see the next resurrection.

By Ujala Sehgal

Jun 4, 2011

East Coast Americans Least Likely to Believe in God

Almost as many American believe in God as did in the 1940s

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By Caitlin Dickson

May 24, 2011

Spatwatch

Dutch Jewish Groups Face Off Against Animal Activists

The Party for Animals want to ban kosher slaughtering practices

Comments | 6,017 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 24, 2011

Stat of the Day

Harold Camping Spent Around $100 Million on Rapture Ads

That's the estimate from an employee at Family Radio

Comments | 3,276 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

May 23, 2011

Rapture Prophet Harold Camping's 'Really Tough Weekend'

The Doomsday author emerges from his house "flabbergasted" and "bewildered"

Comments | 38,293 Views

By Erik Hayden

May 20, 2011

Angry Romans Say 'Modernist' Pope Statue Looks Like Mussolini

Critics inside and outside the Vatican pan the new statue of John Paul II

Comments | 1,207 Views

By Erik Hayden

May 20, 2011

Kentucky Approves State Tourism Incentives for a Bible Theme Park

The proposed Ark Encounter now qualifies for $43 million in tax rebates

Comments | 1,345 Views

By Erik Hayden

May 19, 2011

'Left Behind' Novelist Finds May 21 Rapture Prediction 'Dangerous'

Tim LaHaye also thinks that Harold Camping's doomsday prediction is 'wrong'

Comments | 28,362 Views

By Erik Hayden

May 18, 2011

Atheists Scheduling May 21st 'Rapture Parties'

Evidently, there's a few skeptics who don't care judgment day is nigh

Comments | 37,137 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

May 17, 2011

Bachmann's Presidential Campaign Is 'Beyond Speculation'

Sources tell Fox, "They are doing this"

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By Erik Hayden

May 12, 2011

The End of the World As He Knows It

Pastor Harold Camping explains his prediction that the world's ending on May 21

Comments | 14,473 Views

By Alex Eichler

May 11, 2011

Reverend Billy Graham Hospitalized, In Stable Condition

The mega-evangelist was admitted with a pulmonary condition

Comments | 829 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 11, 2011

Today's Best

Five Best Wednesday Columns

On multicultural parenting, immigration reform, and Christians in the Middle East

Comments | 1,584 Views

By Alex Eichler

May 9, 2011

Hasidic Newspaper Defends Airbrushing Hillary Clinton Out of Photo

Di Tzeitung erased two women from the Situation Room photo due to "laws of modesty"

Comments | 7,548 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

May 9, 2011

Michele Bachmann's School Banned 'Aladdin'

Religion was a big reason the Tea Party celebrity entered politics

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By Ujala Sehgal

May 8, 2011

Clash Over Interfaith Romance Leaves 12 Dead in Cairo

Christian-Muslim tensions have sharply risen since the uprising

Comments | 620 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

May 3, 2011

Karen Santorum: 2012 Is a 'Battlefield' for 'Defending God's Truth'

Wife of likely Republican candidate Rick says the Lord wants him to run

Comments | 7,286 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 2, 2011

Today's Best

Five Best Monday Columns

On bin Laden's Death, choosing provisional leaders, and battling obesity

Comments | 1,289 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 26, 2011

Stat of the Day

Scientology Owns 484 Square Feet of Property for Every Member

The Daily's Hunter Walker adds up the church's many real estate acquisitions.

Comments | 1,267 Views

By Erik Hayden

Apr 26, 2011

Los Angeles Scientology-for-PBS Switch Is Official

Scientology will now use the historic KCET lot to produce their own broadcasts

Comments | 7,554 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 25, 2011

Today's Best

Five Best Monday Columns

On the necessity of hell, the value of copper, and white America's social divide

Comments | 1,691 Views

By Alex Eichler

Apr 20, 2011

The Vatican Gets Trendy: Puts Newspaper Online, Plans a Paywall

What's in L'Osservatore Romano, anyway?

Comments | 613 Views

By Erik Hayden

Apr 20, 2011

People with a Forgiving God More Likely to Cheat on Tests

New study also finds those who pictured God as punitive are less likely to cheat

Comments | 2,683 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 18, 2011

Reviews Predictably Mixed for James Frey's New Bisexual Jesus Novel

'The Final Testament of the Holy Bible' hits shelves this Friday--as in Good Friday

Comments | 1,563 Views

By Erik Hayden

Apr 11, 2011

Arrests Made as France's Burqa Ban Takes Effect

France has outlawed wearing Islamic head coverings in public

Comments | 1,890 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 8, 2011

Today's Best

Five Best Friday Columns

On the ideology of a shutdown, Kabbalah's pop appeal, and Bob Dylan in China

Comments | 1,379 Views

By Heather Horn

Apr 1, 2011

Today's Top Atheist Argues for the King James Bible

Take a look at this stirring Vanity Fair piece

Comments | 2,069 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 1, 2011

Today's Best

Five Best Friday Columns

On helping Libya, the dangers of polygamy, and writing for free

Comments | 745 Views

By Erik Hayden

Mar 31, 2011

In Los Angeles Less PBS, More Scientology

Forced by budget cuts to drop PBS programs, KCET may sell its studios to Scientology

Comments | 4,656 Views

By Erik Hayden

Mar 25, 2011

So Churchgoers Are Fatter But Healthier?

A Northwestern study attempts to paint a link between obesity and churchgoing

Comments | 1,379 Views

By Erik Hayden

Mar 17, 2011

Lightning Rod

To Sing at Crystal Cathedral You Must Sign 'Anti-Gay' Covenant

Choir must declare "sexual intimacy is intended ... between one man and one woman"

Comments | 1,293 Views

By Caitlin Dickson and Eli Rosenberg

Mar 15, 2011

Today's Best

Five Best Tuesday Columns

Dennis Prager on the weekend's other tragedy and Martin Peretz on Obama

Comments | 172 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Mar 10, 2011

The Most Interesting Moments of the Muslim Radicalization Hearings

Rep. Keith Ellison got choked up when talking about a young Muslim who died on 9/11

Comments | 478 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Mar 10, 2011

Peter King Under Police Protection as Hearings Open

Congressman has had 24/7 security for months due to an overseas threat

Comments | 155 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Mar 7, 2011

Who's Who in the Muslim Radicalization Hearings

A look at the players lining up as Rep. Peter King's hearings get ready to open Thursday

Comments | 464 Views

By Alex Eichler

Mar 4, 2011

Critics of Islamaphobia Recoil at Ugly Anti-Muslim Protest Video

Southern California protesters chanted "Go back home!" outside a Muslim charity event

Comments | 345 Views

By Alex Eichler

Mar 2, 2011

Pope Benedict Reiterates That Jews Didn't Kill Christ

The pontiff's new book on the life of Jesus Christ dwells at length on the ancient anti-Semitic slur

Comments | 75 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 2, 2011

Another Moderate Politician Killed In Pakistan

Shabaz Bhatti, Pakistan's only Christian cabinet member, gunned down in Islamabad this morning

Comments | 154 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Feb 15, 2011

Apocalypse Now Already!

In our occasional look at how the world's ending today: the protest in Egypt as a sign the end times are nigh; Armageddon and Obama's re-election chances; never fear, New York is prepared

Comments | 171 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Feb 7, 2011

Scientology: Slave Labor, Beatings, and an FBI Investigation?

The New Yorker spends 24,000 words detailing the secretive church's doings

Comments | 4,178 Views

By Erik Hayden

Feb 3, 2011

Obama's 'Sustaining' Christian Faith

The President gives a personal speech at the National Prayer Breakfast--why?

Comments | 23 Views

By Erik Hayden

Feb 3, 2011

Video: Hannity Calls Imam Guest 'One Sick, Miserable, Evil SOB'

A very long, incendiary "debate" between the Fox News host and a radical Imam

Comments | 47 Views

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