Over centuries, artists and censors have employed the humble fig leaf to cover the penis – including on Michelangelo’s ...

Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment,” the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing ...

VATICAN CITY -- Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment,” the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades, the Vatican ...

Medieval texts and frescoes show how Francis of Assisi’s legends formed – and why his call to poverty and care for creation ...

Like me, you may have recently seen that a group who believe the earth is flat is publicly proclaiming through billboards ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Would religion survive without promises of reward and punishment? Yes. Many argue that besides fear, heaven, hell, punishment, rewards; religion also involves: community, contemplation, heritage, ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

In Apple TV's very first episode of Severance, Harmony Cobell delivers a chilling line about man-made hell that's still ...

A woman who had previously rejected the traditional teachings of God has revealed how her entire view on life and faith changed when she nearly died while vacationing in South Asia. In an interview ...

An atheist man died and experienced both hell and heaven during his NDE. The contrast was immediate and overwhelming. Despair gave way to clarity and mercy. Choice and consequence were made ...