The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...

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Life after death, or the afterlife, has been a fascinating subject of study for researchers all across the world. While some ...

South Korean firefighters were able to fully contain the wildfires that have ravaged the southeastern part of the country and ...

More than 20% of adults have departed from the religious groups in which they were raised, according to a Pew Research Center ...

At least three hospitals in the country are out of service, according to the World Health Organisation, three days after a powerful earthquake hit the country.

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In the film Seven Years in Tibet, Brad Pitt portrayed Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, who in 1944 attempted to climb ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for public office for five years, meaning she would not be ...

The 7.7 magnitude quake hit Friday, with an epicenter near Myanmar's second-largest city of Mandalay, damaging the city's ...

The genre is inextricably linked to the American frontier, but its themes blend well with themes popular in Asian cinema, ...