Opus Dei : Separating Fact From Fiction

The Opus Dei headquarters is in the underground church in Villa Tevere

Police Identify Person of Interest' in Aylmer Church Fire Probe

Fire tore through St. Paul's Catholic Church in the Gatineau community of Aylmer on June 11. (Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC)

New Strain of Anti-Semitism Spreading, Chief Rabbi in Britain Warns

In Kazakhstan, Lutheran World Leader Urges End to Islamophobia

Rev. Ishmael Noko,. Stock photo: Peter Kenny / ENI

United Methodist Members Dying Faster than Americans

Night of the Proms Harlem Gospel Choir

Soweto Gospel Choir Dinging 'Jerusalem' on RN Breakfast

Pope: Bones Found in Rome Tomb Belong to Apostle Paul

Israel :Religious Girls Like to Play, Too

If there's one thing religious girls in Israel like to do at celebrations, it's dance. But Orthodox prohibitions prevent them from forming their frenetic dancing circles in front of men. Instead, they put up a curtain in front of the men, who are usually the ones playing the dance music. Girls Allowed : The members of Ashira perform for women only - and pray before the show.
Photo: AP

Can Religious Groups Change N. Korea?

You Can Be Tolerant and True to Your Faith

36 percent of evangelicals, 33 percent of Muslims and 5 percent each of Jews, Buddhists and Hindus believe their religion is the only true faith. ...

USA : Survey: 60% of Gays Say Faith is Important to Them

Storekeeper's Suit Over Religion Status Reinstated

Mahatma Gandhi : The Murder

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it ... always. Ghandi

The Jordan River : Bible Study

John the Baptist

Violence Envers Des Fidèles : L'Église de Scientologie dans l'embarras

Un groupe d'anciens responsables de l'Église affirme que David Miscavige battait régulièrement les fidèles.

Old Roman Chant - Chant Vieux Romain : Tecum Principium

The Evolution of Religions

Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004).

Professor Diamond argues that religion has encompassed at least four independent components that have arisen or disappeared at different stages of development of human societies over the last 10,000 years.

Umbanda Religion

In Brazil, requests to kill a husband, and remove a curse are all part of a unique religion. see all National Geographic videos: