Pagan/Wiccan News

DENVER, Colorado, JULY 2, 2009 .- Here is an address by Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver presented June 26 at the National Catholic Bible Conference in his archdiocese.

So there's a murder trial going on in England right now, which a woman named Arizona Devine Watterson is accused of killing a man named Billy Rogers.

Title: THE BBC FILMS PAGAN CEREMONIES IN ICELAND A documentary film crew from the BBC attended two weddings, two naming ceremonies and one coming-of-age ceremony undertaken by Asatruarfelagid, the pagan society in Iceland, which honors the Norse gods, at Thingvellir national park on Thursday.

While commentators grouse about issues concerning accuracy , and some readers remain skeptical , more and more signs seem to point to the continuing rise of modern Paganism and the widespread acceptance of a secular "folk-pagan" idiom for seasonal celebrations in Britain.

The 7th annual Pagan Wilderness Weekend will take place from Thursday to Sunday, June 25 to 28, at Elchenburg Castle/Triplette Farm just outside of Elkin in Boonville.

A group of witches is claiming religious discrimination after church leaders banned them from using its social club.

Title: PAGANS, ATHEISTS AND NATURE WORSHIPPERS Wadi Digla is a dried-out river bed lying to the east of the Cairo suburb of Maadi.

In case you thought Miami was all about McMansions and 24-hour high-rises, get acquainted with Coral Castle.

Do you want to celebrate with others of like mind and don't want to wait for a sabbat to do it? There are Pagan gatherings that occur all over the US.

During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle."

In Great Britain, a report reveals that a doctor was ordered to apologize to a Pagan patient, who complained that her practitioner "oozed Christianity ." The patient complained that her doctor's overt religious beliefs "made it impossible to forge a doctor-patient relationship." She also said that "her medication had been drastically changed" and ...

A Christian nation ... a Jewish nation ... an Islamic nation ... Pagan nation ... Are we not, as a nation, the sum total of all our parts? Or does the fact that we have 280 million-plus Americans calling ourselves Christian trump all the others and make us a Christian nation? In my experience there are two kinds of Christians: Those who say they ...

Four recent news reports tie into two larger stories, the first is the issue of Pagan burial space, a matter that will become more prominent as the Baby Boomers travel further into their retirement years.

Portrayals of witchcraft in church records can be very amusing. Almost everything that was "known" at the time about witches was pure fiction, inventions by church authorities who were told that witches were a threat and so had to come up with something to describe.

A small sculpture found in a German cave could be the world's oldest, but comments from some researchers seem to lean towards the non-academic. The female figure, which is estimated to be about 35,000 years old, is of an amply-breasted woman with wide hips and a swollen belly.

Editor, the Gazette: How long will we Christians allow our rights to be eliminated? The young man's request for prayer to be eliminated during graduation at Southeastern High School is a good example.

This time of year I always receive quite a few emails from folks who have had -- or are thinking of having -- a handfasting ceremony.

Cat Chapin-Bishop at Quaker Pagan Reflections has posted a very brave personal essay exploring the need for, and hierarchy created by, fame in the Pagan community.

As the Neo-Pagan community ages, we have come to realize the inherent need for something that more established religions take for granted - a process to help us with the death of a loved one.

May Day, or Beltane, an ancient Celtic festival of fertility revived by Wiccans and neopagans alike, sprang to life again on Saturday.