The Supreme Court is no stranger to religious-freedom cases. Under Chief Justice John Roberts’ tenure, the justices are more sympathetic to such claims than at any other point in the court’s modern ...

It’s not every day you get to declare your manhood at the age of 13. Yet 55 years ago this week, I did just that.

Conversion is framed as a betrayal of the nation, and Dalits who convert are labelled as traitors, tools of foreign influence ...

According to World Health Organisation, FGM is classified into four types. Type 1 (Clitoridectomy) is thepartial or total ...

Government officials in Lanao del Sur province welcomed the enactment of Republic Act 12160, officially known as the ...

Sometime back in the 1970s, I remember watching an episode of “All in the Family” in which Archie reached the end of his mortgage payment booklet and was holding what was then known as a ...

These rites of passage were considered the price of success, but Generation Z isn’t having it. This new generation of workers is questioning the traditions their parents and older co-workers ...

Fall Saturdays were (and to some, still are) a religious rite of passage. So yeah, excuse them if they feel a little melancholy about their grandfather saying goodbye. They’ve watched the game ...

An exciting journey of culture and history awaits visitors to Catalonia. I happened to be looking up when they flew overhead, a flock of white storks heading south along the Costa Brava in ...

The rituals associated with the car festival and special religious rites to the main shrine and the processional idol commenced at midnight and continued through dawn, after which the processional ...

These trends raise critical questions about how we are socialized to engage with one another. Culturally based rites of passage programs for Black girls can address these issues. My organization, ...

“This temple served as a royal institution where the religious rites of sanctifying the pharaoh were held during Ramses’s lifetime,” Mohamed Ismail, the secretary general of the council said ...