Sitting before a packed audience that included hundreds of red-robed monks and nuns who braved incessant rain to see him, he ...

COMMENT: The Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday today will shine a spotlight on Beijing’s long-held antipathy towards organised ...

Recognised worldwide in his red robes and with his wide smile, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th dalai lama, describes himself as a ...

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said that the 600-year-old institution would continue after his death, a ...

At the recently concluded Parliament of the World Religions in Chicago, a unique panel titled “Swastika Proclamation: Swastika is different from Hakenkreuz” explored the distinction between ...

Leo XIV, the first ever American pope, condemned the exploitation of the poor and called for unity in the church during his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square, an event attended by world ...

Religious statues in our homes, gardens and churches are intended to inspire us, not cause us to make them idols. Sometimes non-believers charge Christians, especially Catholics of praying to statues.

Quebec enacted its ban on religious symbols in 2019 using the notwithstanding clause, with support from residents. “We will fight to the end to defend our values and who we are,” Premier ...

In a controversial take on the classic nativity scene, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s traditional blanket with a keffiyeh — a symbol of pro-Palestine activism.

The first full English translation of one of the world's most extraordinary religious documents was published last week. It is The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1,063 pages, translated by ...

All the Indian religions also talk of some austerity, either of body or mind or both. This includes fasting and controlling the unruly mind and making it calm.