These are the words of an exposed adulterer, a caught conspirator to murder, a shamed king. A poetic lament from a broken father who had just held his infant son as he died and now held blame. A ...

On Aug. 9, 1948, a group of 16 Québécois intellectuals and artists, including Jean-Paul Riopelle, gathered in a Montreal bookstore to sign the Refus global, an anti-establishment, anti-religious ...

Pope Francis has told a group of Catholic doctors that "playing with life" in ways like abortion and euthanasia is sinful, and he stressed that each human life, no matter the condition, is sacred. "We ...

An Israeli man has launched a campaign to stop God interfering in his life after three years of poor treatment at the hands of the Almighty. The unidentified man submitted a restraining order request ...

President Trump claimed Thursday that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden -- a practicing Catholic -- is "against God" in a series of false attacks made during a rally-style address ...

Televangelist Pat Robertson blamed the forced resignation of President Trump's National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on "left-wingers and so-called progressives" in the federal government, whom he ...

How did Mohammad Amin Valian, a 20-year-old student from Damghan, land in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) infamous Special Detention Center No. 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison? Valian comes ...

Girls Against God isn’t particularly gripping, and it is confusing at times, but the sense of being unmoored feels very intentional. Its story appears to begin fairly normally, its narrator describing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a dreamlike sequence in Girls Against God, the second novel from Norwegian writer-musician Jenny Hval, the ...

The world order in force since the last century has spawned many states at the whims of the colonial powers, aimed at rewarding loyal collaborators who promised continued service and support for their ...