Noumenal News

In a West Side backyard, behind a bright yellow building that advertises the sale of amulets and healing herbs, police said they stumbled across what may have been the remnants of a very real religious ceremony: a pigeon missing its heart.
By the time it was all over, Animal Care Services removed two roosters, at least […]

Sgt. Patrick Stewart fought for the United States in Afghanistan and died doing it, yet the U.S. government didn’t grant him the same religious freedom he was fighting to uphold.
This member of the Nevada Air National Guard was shot down in his Chinook helicopter September 25, 2005. Ever since, his gravesite has been marked with […]

Three women teachers were among six people arrested today accused of sedating and sexually abusing children as young as 3 at a school near Rome.
The teachers — two of whom are grandmothers who had taught at the school and at Sunday school for decades — are said to have taken part in the repeated abuse […]

A 24-year-old ‘male witch’ may face a lengthy spell in prison after treating his two new flatmates to a night they will struggle to forget.
The two men received a rude awakening in the early hours of a March morning when the new guy returned home to the flat they shared in the Älvsjö suburb of […]

April 25, 2007 — Yonkers cops are investigating the bizarre desecration of a freshly dug grave after a cemetery worker discovered four smoked fishes - gutted and stuffed with photographs of unidentified people - inside the tomb.
The fish were each wrapped in black cloth and had several spices accompanying them.
Police said the items appeared to […]

U.S. Hispanics view religious and political life as intertwined, often worship in ethnic congregations and embrace a spirit-filled, charismatic style of Christianity, a new survey says.
The trends cross Roman Catholic and Protestant lines and signal significant shifts in the U.S. religious landscape, considering the explosive growth of the Hispanic population, according to the survey released […]

When it comes right down to it, the good will of private landowners is often what stands between saving Indian mounds and losing these pieces of ancient history.
“There are no legal obligations regarding mounds on private property, as long as the owners don’t disturb any burials that might be there,” said Linda Hall, a state […]

Most of us like to think this country was founded on freedom of religion. After all, one of the key reasons we made the trip over in the first place was to get away from the tyrannical Church of England and its state-imposed dominance.
But by establishing in the First Amendment freedom of religion, the Founding […]

Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface.
The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.
Scientists made the discovery using the Eso 3.6m Telescope in Chile.
They say the benign temperatures on the […]

The rise and fall of species on Earth might be driven in part by the undulating motions of our solar system as it travels through the disk of the Milky Way, scientists say.
Two years ago, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley found the marine fossil record shows that biodiversity—the number of different species alive […]