Unificationism

Harriet Pasca-Ortgies, Baha'i Faith, Islip: The Baha'i Faith believes in the principle that every human being has the right and responsibility to independently investigate truth for themselves. Therefore, the banning of books is not an option....

Special events First Covenant Church of Winter Park Fall Festival and Antique Car Show, 10a.m.-5p.m. Oct.18; 1720 Howell Branch Road, 321-356-5235. Birth of the Bab: The Messiah, the Return of Christ, and Herald of Baha'u'llah, 7p.m. Oct.19; University...

It has been so long since the sound has been heard in the North Korean capital that at first it seems an illusion, a buzzing in the ear perhaps. But no, that really is a power saw, and that pounding really is a hammer at work at a construction site. By...

The maze of tunnels under New York includes one you probably never heard of. It lies 30 feet below the intersection of West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, and links the New Yorker Hotel to Penn Station. This tunnel is no utilitarian slouch: It's sheathed...

SEOUL— A helicopter carrying Rev. Sun Myung Moon crashed into a mountainside Saturday as it attempted an emergency landing, injuring the founder of the Unification Church and 15 others, officials said. Moon, 88, was slightly injured in the crash, a...

If you ever watched " The Office" and thought Dwight Schrute reminded you of a gawky security guard you once encountered at the Baha'i Temple in Wilmette, there may be a reason. Rainn Wilson, whose starring role in the new movie " The Rocker" should...

Separation of church and baseball might not be entirely possible at a place so often referred to as a "cathedral" in the sports world. Indeed, Yankee Stadium has been the setting for huge religious conventions and celebrations since 1950, when the...

Contact numbers and Web sites for religious organizations, primarily on the Peninsula: African Methodist Episcopal. 723-4065, bethelhame.com Anglican. 595-4318, netministries.org/churches/ch02311 Assemblies of God. 826-3000. Wagchurch.org Baha'i...

An enchanting new novel, "The Invention of Everything Else" by Samantha Hunt (Houghton Mifflin, $24), imagines the last weeks of the Serbian engineer and dreamer Nikola Tesla as he feeds his beloved pigeons and befriends an oddball chambermaid at the...

Javidukht Khadem stood by her husband as he traveled around the world to spread the message of the Baha'i faith. But believers who encountered the couple said it was Mrs. Khadem's devotion and her intuition that for more than four decades helped shape...

On a mission from their leader, five young men arrived in Chicago to open a little fish shop on Elston Avenue. Back then, in 1980, people of their faith were castigated as "Moonies" and called cult members. Yet the Japanese and American friends worked...

BOSTON - After seven weeks of heated public debate and frantic backroom maneuvering, the Massachusetts Legislature approved yesterday a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and establishing civil unions for same-sex couples. Tense state...