The aging Tibetan spiritual leader is looking to prevent Beijing from taking advantage of a power vacuum that might arise after his death.

One in seven Jews worldwide are strictly Orthodox, or Haredi. It's a population of roughly 2 million out of 15 million Jews, ...

The Dalai Lama says he'll have a successor, after all, ending years of speculation that he might be the last person to hold ...

The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader reaffirmed that he would have a successor after his death, amid doubts about the ...

They need to force the court’s hand by using the conservative majority’s supposedly neutral rules to push their own agenda.

Politics aside, his victory is historic. If elected in November, Mamdani would become the first Muslim and South Asian mayor ...

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

A new study suggests that there are six specific traits that these people tend to have in common: Cool people are largely ...

Today, when the sun hits the mountain just right, the fuselage from Grand Teton National Park’s first plane crash glints in the sun. And the few experienced climbers who attempt to summit the peak ...

God's message didn't immediately make sense to pastor José Luis Orozco. But when U.S. efforts resulted in his release from a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued decisions on the final six cases that were left on its docket for the summer, including ...

One mother says she does want her children 'to be instructed by their school about the biblical conception of adultery.’ ...