Religious Events

James Turrell shapes perceptions

2013-05-11 08:00:00

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...

Review: A shattered land tries to pull back together in 'Joe Turner'

2013-05-09 16:45:00

The setting for August Wilson's magnificent "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is a boardinghouse in 1911 Pittsburgh, but the spiritual location is a crossroads between the ghostly past and the forbidding future, slavery and freedom, despair and hope. The...

Immigration reform divides Republicans

2013-05-08 18:37:00

WASHINGTON — The immigration reform bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has deeply split the Republican minority even as lawmakers prepare to take the first votes on the proposal Thursday. Alabama's Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a...

Five women detained in Israel over prayer shawls at Western Wall

2013-04-11 12:45:00

Israeli police detained five women for wearing prayer shawls at the Western Wall on Thursday, days after a new proposal emerged to set aside part of the holy site for men and women to pray together. Female worshippers at the sacred site are barred...

Mormonism and the discussion of a woman's place

2013-04-09 05:30:00

The newer, smaller and more centrally organized a religion is, the less prone it is to reformed versions breaking away. It also helps if the religion's followers form an insular group, to one extent or another, away from the tug of societal trends....

In rare event, woman leads prayer at major Mormon conference

2013-04-06 19:07:00

For the first time in memory, a woman has led a prayer at the major conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. Jean A. Stevens offered the closing prayer for more than 100,000 Mormons gathered Saturday for the...

L.A. Boy Scouts propose admitting gay leaders as well as Scouts

2013-04-22 17:55:00

A Boy Scouts of America proposal to admit gay boys as members while continuing to bar homosexual adults as leaders is not a good way to settle a longstanding controversy that has roiled the youth organization in recent months, a Los Angeles Scouts...

With memorials and silent moments, Boston victims are honored

2013-04-22 20:48:00

MEDFORD, Mass. — She was remembered for her smile. Outside of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Krystle Campbell's second-grade teacher reached into her black purse Monday and pulled out a class picture from April 1991 — 21 sweet, gawky children,...

Krystle Campbell funeral: Bomb victim recalled as 'always smiling'

2013-04-22 12:36:00

MEDFORD, Mass. — She was remembered for her smile. Outside of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Krystle M. Campbell’s second-grade teacher reached into her big black purse Monday and pulled out a class picture from April 1991 -- 21 sweet, gawky...

Boy Scout leaders recommend allowing gay boys into the ranks

2013-04-19 17:52:00

Top officials of the Boy Scouts of America have unanimously recommended allowing gay boys into the ranks of one of the nation’s oldest and most traditional youth groups while continuing to exclude homosexual adults as leaders. Scouting’s...

Leaders of Boy Scouts endorse allowing gay boys but not adults

2013-04-19 18:25:00

Top officials of the Boy Scouts of America have unanimously recommended allowing gay boys into the ranks of one of the nation's oldest and most traditional youth groups while continuing to exclude homosexual adults as leaders. Scouting's executive...

Boy Scouts proposal would lift ban on gay youths

2013-04-19 11:44:00

The Boy Scouts of America announced Friday a proposal to allow gay youths to join the program, a move that, if approved, would mark a dramatic shift for one of the nation's oldest and most traditional youth organizations. The proposal, which would...

An Indian boy is dressed to celebrate the Kumbh Mela festival in India on Feb 18. The Kumbh Mela has up to 100 million worshippers gather over 55 days to take a ritual bath and bestow blessings.

2013-02-18 10:50:00

A woman prays by a candle light as two men use a boat to make their way upstream in the confluence of the Yomuna and the Ganges river at the Sangam during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad on February 7, 2013.

2013-02-07 00:00:00

Indian Hindu pilgrims travel on boats to immerse themselves in the water at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad.

2013-01-23 00:00:00