Christian preacher Harold Camping's laughable attempt to upstage the Mayans, and predict the end of the world a year before the ancient Americans' billing, has gone horribly wrong, leaving his followers devastated, both financially and psychologically. Some people, reacting on Twitter, reserved the harshest comments for Harold Camping and his failed prophesy. Others have ruminated over the possible legal implications Camping will face.
According to neuroscientists, the worship of Apple is real. Scientists compared MRIs of Apple fans to those who identify themselves as religious and found that the same part of the brain lights up in both groups. This indicates that Apple triggers the same emotions and reactions as for those who are religious.
Self-proclaimed Doomsday prophet Harold Camping is nothing less than a charlatan, a fraud who has given a bad name to Christianity, according to Christian leaders.
As believers across the world wait to witness May 21st doomsday prediction turn real, there are a number of reasons why Saturday, May 21, is not the end of the world, according to scientists as well as believers of religion.
New York City seems to be enjoying the rapture eve, from its Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Craigslist.
Using a region in upheaval as the impetus behind his “Arab spring” speech, President Barack Obama saw to it that the world knew just what it is that America values.
Amy Frykholm, religious scholar and author of Rapture Culture, profiles Harold Camping and explains his prophecy's popularity
Battling all objections from Iraq, the first film adaptation of controversial author Salman Rushdie's “Booker of Bookers novel Midnight's Children has finished shooting in Sri Lanka.
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) of Egypt on Wednesday submitted the legal papers to the party affairs committee for approval of a new political party Freedom and Justice.
If you've been following the preaching of Harold Camping, according to him, Judgment Day is merely days away. So set your clock for 6pm on Saturday, May 21st.
If you have seen people flashing boards and passing out flyers reading 'God's judgment day - May 21, 2011' then you can be sure that these claims were most likely made by Harold Camping's prediction of earth's judgment day.
Physicist Stephen Hawking has dismissed religion once again as he deemed heaven a fairy story aimed at appeasing those afraid of death.
The state of Kansas violated a Jehovah's Witness' constitutional right to exercise her religious faith when it denied her request for an out-of-state liver transplant, a state appeals court ruled.
Less than a fortnight after bin Laden's death, there was indeed a revenge attack on a para-military academy near Peshawar in Pakistan where more than 83 people, majority of them newly trained cadets, were killed.
Sure, it was New York Times number one destination in the world for 2008. Sure, it’s the Wanderlust Travel Awards winner for Top City in 2010 and 2011. But, nobody seems to be listening.
Hasidic newspaper, Der Tzitung, has evoked controversy with the alteration of the famous White House Situation Room pictures which were released following the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani addressed his country's Parliament on the Osama bin Laden operation in Abbottabad.
A new study from Rice University says more than 25 percent of atheist scientists are spiritual.
Osama bin Laden chose his fifth wife Amal al-Sadah from Yemen, the land of his ancestors. She married the terror leader at the age of 17 and lived with him till his last day. She was with him in his final moments, either willingly trying to act as a human shield or pushed in front by her cowering husband.
New Yorkers and visitors to the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Monday dealt with a surprise announcement late Sunday that U.S. forces had killed al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden, showing mixed feelings about what it meant for their safety, and justice for victims.
Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces, President Barack Obama announced.
Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, beatified Pope John Paul II on Sunday at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, calling him Blessed, before throngs of faithful, putting the pope who died in 2005 one step from sainthood within the Church.
