And and she, she just said she wrote 18 column inches which suggested I was the worst writer in the world, and I had no right to take this sacred institution and use it for my own perverted purposes.

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, has opened a new yearlong “synodal” consultation process on sacred music after a now-rescinded decree from the bishop last fall banning certain hymns ...

Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has been banned from leaving Iran to serve on the Tiger Competition ...

But the intermittent montages of police brutality are hardly the most powerful parts of the movie: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is, at the end of the day, a family drama, making it an intense treatise ...

A bird does not forget its nest, and neither should we forget the honor of our people and their sacred throne. This betrayal is far from an isolated incident. Over the years, we’ve seen ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorated the first public appearance of their ...

As part of the celebrations, worshippers made a pilgrimage to the sacred grotto where Seydina Limamou Laye first retreated for meditation and — according to believers — received divine ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

Rozenberg believes the Torah, Judaism's most sacred text, may describe psychedelic ... Rozenberg explained the high priest, "puts the coals from acacia tree, this psychoactive tree, which contains ...

The Kumbh Mela, a spiritual gathering held every 12 years at sacred river confluences in India, symbolizes the union of human and cosmic energies. Rooted in ancient traditions and celestial ...