RELIGION

History will remember 2011 as the year of the popular uprising. The common man is creating history in different corners of the world. What else do the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests, the anti-austerity protests in Greece and Spain, and the anti-corruption campaign in India herald?

Morocco is in the midst of parliamentary elections, following the establishment of a new constitution (approved by referendum in July), one of the reforms enacted by King Mohamed VI.

Occupy Wall Street protesters are aiming their new target: Black Friday

A Canadian provincial court on Wednesday upheld the country's ban on polygamy, saying the harm that plural marriage causes to women and children outweighed any infringement of religious freedoms.

Ancient coins from 17 AD discovered from an excavation site underneath Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City have overturned beliefs about the origins of the wall, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday.

According to a new Pew Research Center poll, a third of Republicans think Mormonism isn't a Christian religion, and these people are less likely to support Romney for the Republican nomination. But if Romney does get the nomination, an overwhelming majority of Republicans would vote for him over President Barack Obama.

American Atheists has posted seasonal billboards in different locations including the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel. The billboards are the next stage of the You KNOW it's a MYTH campaign it started last year.

Video of Saif al-Islam Gadhafi taken after his capture in Libya has surfaced online.

The narrator of a new unlisted YouTube video describes the beautiful world that Occupy Wall Street is helping to turn people on to, setting his philosophical treatise to artistically-shot clips of the OWS movement and its supporters.

The fact that Mitt Romney is a Mormon is well known at this point. His faith has been discussed, criticized and defended. Which is why it actually is somewhat shocking to learn a fact that, if said about any candidate other than Romney, would probably elicit a quizzical look and a duh. That fact? Romney has tried alcohol. And smoked a cigarette.

Teddy Forstmann, the 71-year-old beau of Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, died of brain cancer on Sunday.

A Canadian judge upheld an eviction order for protesters camped in downtown Toronto on Monday, giving the Occupy Toronto movement until midnight to vacate the park they've held for more than a month.

Jose Pimentel, 27, a Manhattan man, had been arrested for allegedly plotting to attack U.S. military personnel, police patrol cars and post offices with homemade pipe bombs in the New York metro area.

The NYPD arrested a homegrown lone wolf terror suspect on Saturday, who is charged with plotting to use pipe bombs that he was allegedly building in his Manhattan apartment to kill U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night.

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, 20, the blogger and feminist activist who posted a nude photo of herself on her blog - A Rebel's Scream, has been at the receiving end of criticism from sections of Egyptian society and now has lawsuits filed against her.

Half of the country’s population is Christian, although some of them incorporate the practice of Vodun (voodoo) in their rituals.

When California's Proposition 8 has its day in court, any judge who respects the U.S. Constitution will strike it down as a violation of the 14th Amendment, because civil rights cannot be subject to popular vote.

In yet another sexist and repressive act, a conservative Islamic committee in Saudi Arabia has proposed a law to stop women from revealing their tempting eyes to the public.

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Benin on Friday, starting a three day visit to the West African country.

Con Ed is seeking to evict the developer of the controversial Ground Zero Mosque, Sharif El-Gamal for neglecting to pay his rent.

According to FIFA President Sepp Blatter, there is no racism in soccer. But there is, Sepp, and it's a serious problem.