The World from PRX

belief

A decorated street carpet known as an alfombra created for Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala.
Lifestyle & Belief
Guatemalans commemorate Holy Week with colorful street carpets
Father Damion, abbot at St. Joseph's Trappist Abbey, left, and Spencer Brewery director Father Isaac walk through their new, state-of-the-art facility.
Lifestyle & Belief
Trappist monks keep beer tradition alive despite decline in interest for monastic life
A woman poses for a photo surrounded by red Christmas ornaments in Bangkok, Thailand.
Religion
Photos: The world celebrates Christmas
Suhaib Webb
Culture
Why both ISIS and some US right-wingers are threatening to kill this American imam
Juan Carlos Villegas, from Bello, Colombia, came from a Catholic family. He started going to a Pentecostal church as a teenager, later he became a pastor, and ultimately he became an ordained rabbi and converted – along with hundreds of members of his chu
Belief
Members of a Colombian mega church who’ve converted to Orthodox Judaism are part of a trend
Leucippis, thought by many to be the father of atomist philosophy (Wikipedia Commons)
Belief
If the multiverse is real, what does that mean for modern-day religion?
Taio Kaneta with his signature "Cafe de Monk" truck that he uses for his pop-up cafes. As a Buddhist monk, Kaneta wanted to offer something special to those still reeling from the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.
Belief
At Cafe de Monk, tsunami survivors can get coffee, cake and someone to listen to their woes
President Barack Obama and First lady Michelle Obama were there in person to welcome Pope Francis at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for the pontiff's first visit to the United States on September 22, 2015.
Belief
Pope Francis wants the Vatican to serve the people
A photo of Bangladeshi American blogger, Avijit Roy, last year holding a book on Rabindranath Tagore. Roy blogged about scientific thought and apathy towards religion, taboo subjects in his home country of Bangladesh.
Belief
An atheist blogger in Bangladesh is hacked to death by religious fanatics
Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed and Zahra Noorbakhsh are the women behind the new podcast: Good Muslim/Bad Muslim.
Culture
How to eat pork, drink booze and be a ‘good’ Muslim
Shabe Yalda
Culture
Join in on a winter celebration that helps keep the evil spirits away
Father Gregory Collins, Abbot of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, addresses the Jewish audience in his Christmas sermon.
Lifestyle & Belief
What do you preach to a church full of Jews on Christmas?
Pope Francis after his selection in March.
Lifestyle & Belief
Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ has moved fast to rebrand Catholicism
A shrine in Xuanwu Lake park in Nanjing is a popular spot where people submit personal wishes - written on red ribbons - to a higher power.
Lifestyle & Belief
In atheistic China, people use ribbons in a park to appeal to ‘higher powers’
A young boy lights Hanukkah lights in Jerusalem's Nachlaot neighborhood.
Lifestyle & Belief
Hanukkah is a block party in Jerusalem — with olive-oil menorahs lighting up the streets
Business, Economics and Jobs
U.S. workforce grows older as workers postpone retirement
Lifestyle & Belief
Archaeologists in Israel discover synagogue dating from time of Jesus
Lifestyle & Belief
Divinity scholar says piece of ancient papyrus includes reference to ‘Jesus’ wife’
Global Politics
Why do we predict?
Arts, Culture & Media
A film of intelligent design & evolution
Arts, Culture & Media
Israeli Archeologists Discover “Jesus’ Synagogue”
Food Safety and Eating in China
Music Heard on Air
Music Heard on Air for April 4, 2011
The Living on Earth Almanac
Note on Emerging Science
A Journey to the Fourth World
The Nature of Death
Lifestyle & Belief
What do you know about religion?
Lifestyle & Belief
What is heaven? Listeners respond
Arts, Culture & Media
The ”other” Bethlehem
Conflict & Justice
Creationism in Britain
Pope Exonerates Jews for Death of Christ
Lifestyle & Belief
Jesse Bering on ‘The Belief Instinct’