Following the publication of a report criticizing his handling of a case involving the sexual abuse of minors, Anglican ...

Pope Gregory chose a group of about 40 monks, including Augustine, to set sail for England in spring 597. After arriving they gained an audience with pagan King Ethelbert of Kent, who would later ...

Justin Welby’s predecessors have at times met gruesome fates — being stabbed or burned at the stake — but over 16 centuries ...

The United States Navy is highlighting how they protect a group of endangered whales during their annual migration.   North ...

IT WAS one of the Church of England’s “South Bank Religion” sensations of the 1960s. In 1965, The Observer published an ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain (pronounced SAW-en).  But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature ...

From pagan rituals to modern masquerade images, Halloween has transformed from a ritualistic holiday to protect against spirits into a popular entertainment phenomenon. Costumes for the holiday have ...

As the holidays approach, 21 locals will put on their ballet shoes. Four Methuen kids, two students from Salem and 15 Derry ...

The figures show six people selected Witchcraft as their religion in Wigan in 2021. While the witch population has not soared ...

Anthropologist and pagan Lyn Baylis tells the BBC: "Fire rituals to bring light into the darkness were vital to Samhain, which was the second most important fire festival in the Pagan Celtic world ...

To the pagan, Celts, it marked the end of the pastoral ... The Celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems.