How tiny Oregon, Illinois, has spent decades grappling with one strange congregation, from abuse allegations to a leader who ...

As dozens of rallies were staged across the Philippines after the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte on a crime ...

News reports tell us that the measles outbreak in Texas, in which a child tragically died, is taking place within a religious sect with a low vaccination rate. Doctors who study public attitudes ...

The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government has aggravated the already tense relations between Turkey and Israel, ...

Leaders of the protest include the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, a Christian sect led by a man wanted by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged labor trafficking in America.

Also on one wall: A Kurdish tapestry he bought in Turkey in 1982 while on a scientific mission to find documents and artifacts of the Nestorians, an ancient Christian sect. It symbolizes his life ...

The Druze, a small religious sect, are caught between Syria’s new Islamist-led government in Damascus and Israel, which many Syrians view as a hostile neighbor leveraging the Druze’s plight to ...

The Druze religious sect began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Over half of the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide live in Syria. Most other Druze live in Lebanon ...