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The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. The belief in the evil eye among humans...

Flagellation (Latin flagellum, 'whip'), flogging or whipping is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, rods, switches...

The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world. The missionary efforts and...

The following is a list of national founders of sovereign states who were credited with establishing a state. National founders are typically those who...

This list contains notable people who have been killed in traffic collisions. This list does not include those who were killed competing on closed-road...

Fasman Yeshiva High School, known colloquially as Skokie Yeshiva, is an Orthodox Jewish all-boys high school in Skokie, Illinois. Fasman Yeshiva offers...

Blood atonement was a doctrine in the history of Mormonism still adhered to by some fundamentalist splinter groups, under which the atonement of Jesus...

Vikentije (II) (Serbian Cyrillic: Викентије, secular name Vitomir Prodanov, Витомир Проданов; 23 August 1890 – 5 July 1958) was the fourth partriach of...

William Carmichael (1702–1765) was Archbishop of Dublin for a brief period in 1765. He was the son of the second Earl of Hyndford. He had previously been...

Christianity portal Charles King Irwin (also Irvine; 30 March 1874 – 15 January 1960) was an eminent Irish clergyman in the middle third of the 20th century...

Georges Leon Rey (born 1945) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland. Rey received a doctoral degree...

Christianity portal John Phillips (ca. 1555 – 7 August 1633) was the Anglican Bishop of Sodor and Man between 1604 and 1633. He is best known for writing...

Henry Scott Holland (27 January 1847–17 March 1918) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church...

Henry Tilson (bapt. 1577 – 1655), Bishop of Elphin, was an Irish Anglican churchman. The son of Henry Tilson, he was born in England at Midgley, in Yorkshire...

The French Council of the Muslim Faith (French: Conseil français du culte musulman, usually abbreviated to CFCM), is a national elected body, to serve...

John Milton was involved in many relationships, romantic and not, that impacted his various works and writings. Milton married Mary Powell in May 1642...

The Herald of Christian Science is a magazine published in multiple languages by the Christian Science Publishing Society. It was first published as a...

Christianity portal Gregory John Orchard Dunstan was Dean of Armagh until 2020. Born in 1950, grew up in England, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin;...

The Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine lies a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean, on Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades, California. It was founded...

Christianity portal Augustine FitzGerald, D.D. (21 December 1826 – 2 January 1900) was Dean of Armagh from 1896 until his death. FitzGerald was educated...