On Wednesday, India’s top court ordered that a curator be appointed to protect and preserve the vast, newly revealed treasures hidden in a Hindu temple in southern India.
Nigeria is positioning its banks to offer Islamic banking products.
A new Gallup Poll indicates that a majority of Jewish-Americans continue to approve of President Barack Obama.
Unearthing treasures has long been an obsession of archaeologists -- and one treasure hunt has led Indian officials to unearth treasures worth $23 billion from underground chambers in the centuries-old Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala.
Government officials in India have unearthed treasure worth more than $23 billion from secret underground chambers in the centuries-old Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple located in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the South Indian state of Kerala.
El Colacho or Baby Jumping is a traditional Spanish practice dating back to 1620. The festival takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ) in the village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos, in Spain. The practice, known as El Salto del Colacho (the devil's jump) or simply El Colacho, involves men dressed as the Devil (known as the Colacho) jump over babies born during the previous twelve months of the year who lie on mattresses in the stre...
Today, the Liberty Bell that hangs at the Liberty Bell Center on Market Street in Philadelphia will be symbolically tapped as per the tradition on every Independence Day.
A treasure trove worth $23 billion has been unearthed from the secret chambers of an 18th century Indian temple in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the South Indian state of Kerala.
I'm the only woman in the establishment, yet I barely notice, so at home do I feel. I've just perched myself in one of the lounge's lion-armed chairs, newspaper in hand, when from afar, a man bellows, Rocky Patel; toro; 1992; a Nicaraguan blend. I used to like those.
Debuting her new album, the singer looked heavy-set minus her bald look and with a head full of hair
The Federal Bureau of Investigation recruited members of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., train agents and police officers in speaking to people they disagreed with, a practice the agency has said it will discontinue.
Shawn Carter felt an overriding sense of freedom - freedom of religion, freedom of thought, and the freedom to express both - when his parents, both founding members of a Baptist church, kicked him out of their home after he stopped attending. It became one of the defining moments of his life, he said.
Hani Khan, a 20-year-old American Muslim woman, who has been fired for refusing to remove her hijab for religious reason, while working as a stockroom employee at preppy clothing retailer, Hollister, is suing her former employer.
Three men convicted in a thwarted plot to bomb a Bronx synagogue were sentenced to 25 years in federal prison
The 84-year-old Pope Benedict XVI sent out his first tweet on Tuesday. It read: Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI.
The Dutch lower house has approved a humane slaughter bill that will counter Islamic and Jewish religious practices.
Hani Kahn, a 20-year-old American Muslim woman, was fired when she refused to remove her hijab for religious reasons, while working as a stockroom employee at preppy clothing retailer Hollister.
Who said the Catholic Church was old fashioned?
A cartoon of Mickey and Minnie Mouse clad in Islamic dress has angered Egyptian Muslims.
Pope Benedict XVI has tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal.
It has been only three days since New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that allowed same-sex couples to marry, but that hasn't stopped the state's top Roman Catholic leaders from voicing their opposition to the new law.
Anthropologists have differed over whether to let primitive tribes live in peace, untouched by modern technological advancements, including those in the medical field, or to amalgamate them into modern life gradually. This anthropological dichotomy will perhaps never be resolved. An enormous number of readers posted comments on the IB Times story on the uncontacted tribal people deep inside the Brazilian rainforest.
