Pagan/Wiccan News Archives

Perhaps I've developed outrage fatigue from covering religious news for so many years, but I just can't seem to muster much energy for the supposed controversy over vacuous morning-show host Kathie Lee ...

Title: QUARRYING PROTEST GOES AHEAD DESPITE THE DAMP A fight to save coastal land from quarrying united druids, morris men, councillors and families on a damp cliff-top. Members of pagan group the Dolmen Grove ...

Pagan John Roesch of Wheat Ridge conducts a ritual. Give them that old-time religion - ancient religion - and then watch an exploding population of modern pagans give it contemporary twists.

Druids and hundreds of music fans took part in a "sun dance" ahead of this year's Glastonbury Festival.

While Senator Barack Obama struggles to keep the public in the dark about the nature of his pro-U.N. Global Poverty Act, a recent "Bay Area Interfaith Leaders' Luncheon" was held to lobby for Senate passage of the bill, whose cost has been estimated at $845 billion. An actual witch who spoke at a "Pagan Pride" festival in San Francisco was one of the listed participants. ...

Title: SEX FIEND ROBIN FLETCHER'S CUSTODY WIN A self-proclaimed pagan witch who turned two 15-year-old girls into sex slaves has won the right to challenge his detention.

Four members of a family have died after being attacked by villagers who said they were practising witchcraft in India's north-eastern state of Assam.

Thousands of partygoers, pagans and self-styled druids cheered and banged drums Saturday to greet the dawn at Stonehenge on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice.

In response to the June 10 Register article, 'Pagan Symbols on Fence Must Go, City Insists': This is one single fence with religious symbolism appearing on it.

Is Bob Barr libertarian enough? Source: Capitol Times Author: John Nichols Posted on 06.15.08 by Mary Lou Seymour "Barr has also been a big-government man when it comes to restricting abortion rights , marriage ...

Title: ONLINE CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS In the beginning the Army created Army Knowledge Online.

Idaho CBS affiliate KIDK reports on a woman who claims she and her 17-month-old son were booted from a non-denominational Christian half-way house when she refused to discard her Pagan jewelry and fantasy ...

Craig Ladwig says he is troubled that a GOP state senator is considering running for governor as an independent under a Christian banner, implied if not stated.

I have talked about the Birth of the Women's Spirituality Movement in my speeches. I have described our very first Sabbath, on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 1971, in Hollywood, California; it is from this point I date the inception of women's spirituality. That story is in my books, The Grandmother of Time and Grandmother Moon.

On the northwest tip of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan's Nuristan province, the inaccessible Chitral district has long been thought to be a possible refuge for Osama bin Laden .

Perhaps the greatest boon and greatest curse of contemporary Neo-Paganism is the Internet.

A truth and reconciliation commission is examining a decades-long government policy that required Canadian Indians to attend schools where students were forced to lose their cultural identity and routinely were ...

On the northwest tip of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan's Nuristan province, the inaccessible Chitral district has long been thought to be a possible refuge for Osama bin Laden.

Paganism is derived from the word pagan, which means rustic or rural. Paganism is a contemporary expression of generic belief for a number of traditions which seek harmony and spiritual growth through the ...

The Winter Solstice has not yet fallen upon us, yet the Parish is already cover'd in a dense Blanket of Snow; the Boys of our Town Ship, I am sorry to testify, have cast aside their School Primers and Lunch ...

'I hope nobody makes it an issue," councilor says.

The dispute over prayer at Fort Walton Beach city committee meetings has no parallel in Destin to date, city officials say. ...

A pastor and his wife are now cooling their heels in police cell in Benin-City for allegedly using human heads to prepare rituals for church members.

Braucherei, a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch practice, focuses on using folk remedies to cure illnesses.

Jesse Tobin of Albany Township is just 26 years old, but much of her time, energy and passion center around an ancient tradition of folk healing called Braucherei.

'Good fortune and fertility' sought from 'the gods on the structure'

A former employee of a Tennessee insurance company is objecting to a "ceremony" held at the construction site of a new building because it called on "the gods on the structure" for "good fortune and fertility." ...

Local Council officials of Kakiika Ward in Mbarara municipality have evicted Kyokusima Nnalongo, 35, claiming she was practicing witchcraft and causing insecurity in the area, reports Abdulkarim Ssengendo.