The ruling found the marriage voidable, saying the man 'pursued, harassed, and perhaps even stalked' the teenager who was ...

The cult Angela and Cade were born into made headlines ... They did so because the justice of the peace who performed the necessary legal ceremony was not allowed on church property because ...

The Unification Church is a controversial religious group founded in the 1960s. Mass arranged marriages have become a signature practice of the church. Zelensky announces Ukraine 'ready to sign ...

and for the performance of cult ceremonies. Divorce was not uncommon and had little of the stigma that later Christian civilization would attach to it, and women could, and frequently did ...

Among the objects found was a small bowl used for incense burning, indicative of cult ceremonies during the Hellenistic period. This artifact suggests that ritual practices were conducted within ...

Japan marked the 30th anniversary of the sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway that killed more than a dozen people and injured ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city ...

The ceremony comes a week after authorities banned Aleph, a successor group to the doomsday cult, from using some of its facilities and receiving donations. It marked the first time they enforced ...