Baby ‘starved to death’ because he did not say Amen For more than a week, Ria Ramkissoon watched passively as her one-year-old son wasted away, denied food and water because the older woman she lived with said it was God’s will. Javon Thompson was possessed by an evil spirit, Ramkissoon was told, because he didn’t [...]

Measure on illegal abortions heads to governor The Utah Senate has joined the House in allowing homicide charges against expectant mothers who arrange illegal abortions. The bill responds to a case in which a Vernal woman allegedly paid a man $150 to beat her and cause miscarriage but could not be charged. The Senate on [...]

God wants gays dead, says beauty queen CARRIE Prejean isn’t the only beauty queen open to expressing her objection to same-sex marriage. Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley is also speaking out in support of traditional nuptials, Fox News reported. “The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman,” Ms Ashley told [...]

Christians: Being un-Christ-like, since.. well..  forever. Voodoo religion’s role in helping Haiti’s quake victims A month before Haiti’s devastating earthquake, prominent musician Theodore “Lolo” Beaubrun and a few friends were summoned by spirits who tried to warn them about the impending cataclysm. “They told us to pray for Haiti because many people would die,” says [...]

The High Price of Religious Defection The community of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel is half a million strong and growing. They live in a parallel universe cut off from the modern world in tight-knit communities where everything revolves around religion. Only a few dare to abandon this life — and the price for doing so [...]

Links to Spirituality Found in the Brain Scientists have identified areas of the brain that, when damaged, lead to greater spirituality. The findings hint at the roots of spiritual and religious attitudes, the researchers say. The study, published in the Feb. 11 issue of the journal Neuron, involves a personality trait called self-transcendence, which is [...]