In a medieval Chinese text by Taoist Lu Dongbin, there are some obscure Christian prayers used as spells, that declare Jesus ...

China has a rich religious tapestry, from the bloody Taiping Rebellion to Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and how they ...

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what your DNA says about your ancient relatives Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters — religious practices and ...

Credit: Ben Marwick. A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans in East Asia. Researchers from the University of ...

Francis said he felt the more ancient mass was "being used in an ideological way" in reaction to modernity, including the more modern Vatican II mass. The mass consists of the "Liturgy of the Word ...

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I had minor surgery last week to remove a lipoma, which had quietly made a home for itself on my right shoulder several years ago. Embedded just beneath the skin like one half of a ping pong ball ...

An American man who devoted 15 years of his life to studying martial arts and Taoism on China's sacred Wudang Mountain has been granted foreign permanent residency, according to a report by the ...