A bid to demolish one of the former meeting places of a Christian sect in Scotland has been rejected. The Glasite Chapel or ...

Two neighboring towns on the Arizona-Utah border that once served as a haven for a polygamous religious sect have entered a new era ...

Discover the Molokans, a Russian Christian sect exiled to Azerbaijan from Central European Russia in the 1800s. Initially ...

In the modern world, countries which seldom came together in the past can communicate over the internet, and their citizens can travel to other countries. The era of one-church states is over.

(AINA) -- The use of the "Christian" label for indigenous peoples in Iraq, particularly in northern Iraq, is not neutral. It carries political, legal, and historical consequences that undermine ...

Many of the tenets that 18th-century Shaker movement founder Ann Lee espoused hundreds of years ago could well enlighten today’s not-always-inclusive culture, says Amanda Seyfried. Related Articles ...

PHILADELPHIA — When state Sen. Sharif Tahir Street converted to Islam 30 years ago, he already had a Muslim name. His father, John F. Street, who would go on to become Philadelphia's mayor, gave his ...

Redlands police this week arrested a third leader of a secretive Hemet-based religious order in connection with the disappearance of a Tennessee man who was an ex-congregant and last known to be seen ...