An irate hellraiser stormed the altar at a Long Island church during Sunday mass — toppling sacred, century-old relics and causing $10,000 worth of damages, authorities said.

A groom was so overcome with emotion on his wedding day that he fainted at the altar in front of his blushing bride and 200 guests.

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their ...

The Death Row Records gospel album 'Altar Call' is dedicated to Snoop Dogg's late mother, Beverly Tate.

A new discovery tells of a turbulent episode in the Mayan city of Tikal according to the researchers who unearthed an ancient altar that wasn’t Mayan.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics ...

It's always about colonialism Painted altar in Maya city of Tikal reveals aftermath of ancient coup The altar marks the presence of an enclave of foreign elites from Teotihuacan.

An ancient altar has been unearthed that is believed to have been used to sacrifice children in an abandoned 'city of the gods'.

I have recently learnt that the mid-point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox is called Imbolc, and it is this period that we are experiencing right now.