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Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social...

Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects....

Narconon International (commonly known as Narconon) is a Scientology organization which promotes the theories of founder L. Ron Hubbard regarding substance...

Baris (Ancient Greek: Βάρις), called Baris in Hellesponto to distinguish it from other places called Baris, was an ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor...

Fermentum is a practice of the Early Christian Church whereby bishops affirmed their communion with one another, or with their own local subordinate priests...

Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s, and featured charges against day-care providers...

Kish (Hebrew: קיש Qīš) was the father of the first king of the Israelites, Saul. (1 Chronicles 12:1) Kish was a Benjamite of the family of the Matrites...

Eadberht was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield (or perhaps Bishop of Lindsey). Eadberht is known from three charters which he witnessed as bishop, in 869...

Burgheard was a medieval Bishop of Lindsey (or perhaps Bishop of Lichfield). Burgheard is known from one charter, which he witnessed as bishop in 869....

St Mary's, Staines, is a Church of England parish church in the town and parish of Staines-upon-Thames, in the Spelthorne borough of Surrey and the Greater...

Koenwald or Cenwald or Coenwald (floruit 928–958) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Worcester, probably of Mercian origin. Koenwald succeeded Bishop Wilfrith...

Paternoster Press is a British Christian publishing house which was founded by B. Howard Mudditt (1906–1992) in 1936. Mudditt was a Bank of England clerk...

The Diocese of Bazas, centred on Bazas in Aquitaine, covered the Bazadais region, known under the Romans as the Vasatensis pagus after the ancient occupants...

Stephanas (Greek: Στεφανᾶς, Stephanas, meaning "crowned", from Greek: στεφανόω, stephanoó, "to crown") was a member of the church at Corinth, whose family...

Dennis Hume Wrong (November 22, 1923 – November 8, 2018) was a Canadian-born American sociologist and emeritus professor in the Department of Sociology...

St. Mary's Orthodox Syrian Cathedral (Thumpamon Valiya Pally or തുമ്പമണ്‍ വലിയ പള്ളി or Marthamariyam Badrasana Devalayam) is an Orthodox ancient church...

Wilfrido Ramos-Orench (born May 4, 1940) is an Episcopal bishop. From 2014-2017 he served as the Provisional Bishop of the Diocese of Puerto Rico. He was...

John Donald Hayden (born 1940) is a British retired Anglican bishop. He served in Tanzania as Assistant Bishop of Mount Kilimanjaro and is now an honorary...

In Greek mythology, Pierus[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Πίερος Píeros) was the son of Thessalian Magnes. He was the lover of muse Clio and father of...