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Week-long celebration revives faith among the island's Hindu community.

Devotional postages can be used in place of official stamps.

Haiti's evangelical and voodoo priests are providing spiritual and material aid to the homeless and injured

A cancer doctor says his years of experience have convinced him of the reality of an afterlife.

The Muslim prisoner demands that he be served meat.

Over a thousand people in the genocide-ravaged nation have taken up the practice.

Members of the French Parliament recommend less comprehensive legislation.

A recent Harris Poll shows that the majority of Americans are convinced theists.

More than 20 percent of the nation’s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years

Mathura, Jan 11: American landscape experts, who are drawing up a conservation plan for Mount Govardhan-significant in Hindu mythology-feelthe hill deserves to be recognised as a world heritage site.

Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia.

President Herbert Hoover promised "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage." With warnings about global warming reaching feverish levels, many are having second thoughts about all those cars. It seems they should instead be worrying about the chickens.

Hundreds of millions of people are going hungry every day all over the world because much of the arable land now is being used to grow feed grain for animals rather than food grain for people.

RAJU the bear will never have to smoke cigarettes or dance on his hind legs under the hot sun again thanks to a multinational project to save an endangered species and end a cruel centuries-old tradition in India.

MAP TA PHUT, Thailand — Villagers here avoid walking in the rain because they say it burns their skin and causes their hair to fall out. They have trouble breathing at night when, they say, factories release toxic fumes. And they are terrified by what studies show are unusually high cancer rates.

America is not a Christian nation. We are, it is true, a nation founded by Christians, and according to a 2008 survey, 76 percent of us continue to identify as Christian (still, that's the lowest percentage in American history). Of course, we are not a Hindu—or Muslim, or Jewish, or Wiccan—nation, either. A million-plus Hindus live in the United States, a fraction of the billion who live on Earth. But recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians in the ways we think about God, our selves, each other, and eternity.

SYDNEY: Australia's prime minister threatened legal action against Japan on Friday if it does not stop its research whaling program that kills up to 1,000 whales a year.

The 7 billion livestock animals in the United States consume five times as much grain as is consumed directly by the entire American population.
Each year an estimated 41 million tons of plant protein is fed to U.S. livestock to produce an estimated 7 million tons of animal protein for human consumption. About 26 million tons of the livestock feed comes from grains and 15 million tons from forage crops. For every kilogram of high-quality animal protein produced, livestock are fed nearly 6kg of plant protein.

Hospitals are catching on to the fact that meat is not good for the environment, their budget, their patients’ health, or even the animals!

ONE with nine zeroes on the right looks quite tidy as a figure, but it gives an uneasy feeling when FAO says that the number of hungry people in the world has reached a historic high of more than one billion.