AS WE MARK THE EVE NOW OF THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE NEW YEAR’S DAY TERRORIST ATTACK, FAMILIES ARE STILL GRAPPLING WITH ...

Nollaig na mBan is an old tradition from the country's south that modern women have turned into a day to celebrate their ...

Q: If the church’s new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is the secular New Year’s Day (Jan. 1) a holy day ...

Molly DeWitt, 9, of Houston was imaginative and artistic, loving to spend time drawing, dancing and dreaming up stories. When ...

In this holiday special, we speak to the acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy on her new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. The book focuses on her mother Mary Roy and how Arundhati was shaped by her, ...

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.

Government officials have traditionally steered clear of such overtly religious language, as the Constitution prohibits the ...

The time of Exit Elena, Stinking Heaven, and Thirst Street didn't do much to prepare one for Nathan Silver's mainstream ...

Hey Wilson, did you know there is a “Mother in Heaven?” According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—aka the Mormons—there is a female deity. We're reminded of this thanks to Ciara ...

Recently, I completed the 11-month period of leading communal prayers in memory of my mother, Bracha Levertov, of blessed memory. Several times a week I stood before a minyan and guided the community ...

A Chilean woman whose twin daughters were stolen from her in 1979 has reunited with them for the first time in four-and-a-half decades. The emotional reunion between María Verónica Soto, 64, and her ...