Worship and Devotional Life
This entry consists of the following articles:
Jewish Worship
Christian Worship
Muslim Worship
Hindu Devotional Life
Buddhist Devotional Life in Southeast Asia
Buddhist Dev...
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While most of today's TV shows struggle to post decent ratings amid an increasingly media-fractured landscape, American Idol returned for a sixth season in mid-February with a ratings high, dr...
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Sundays at the evangelical Grace Chapel megachurch look like the American ideal of race relations: African-American, Haitian, white, Chinese and Korean families sing along with a white, guitar-play...
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Ludmila Krzewska abandoned Judaism after enduring anti-Semitic childhood taunts, and warnings from her parents that it wasn't safe to be Jewish in Poland.The 25-year-old biology student decided to ...
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(recasts lead, updates with show close, Daughtry quote,
losers) By Dean Goodman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The American Music Awards
resembled a greatest-hits version of "American Idol" Sunday,
as tw...
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World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in ord...
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Harare (dpa) - A judge in the Zimbabwean capital Harare Saturday
ordered two factions of the bitterly-divided Anglican Church to
worship at different times, an official said...
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Christian singer Chris Tomlin, the Dove Awards' artist of the year in 2006, is the leading nominee of the gospel music awards again this year with nine nominations, including another nod for artist...
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Polling sites located within houses of worship do not violate the constitutional separation of church and state, a federal judge has ruled.Jerry Rabinowitz, a nonobservant Jew whose voting precinct...
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The committee that assigns Brecht Awards -- given for particularly lame political gambits -- had to take a couple of days to debate this one, but now it's official: Freddy's attack on "pay-to-pray"...
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Authorities have increased arrests on Christian groups operating outside China's sole official government church following a crackdown ordered last month, an overseas monitoring group reported Frid...
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