Antiquities
Getty Museum will return Orpheus and the Sirens to Italy
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The Getty Museum in Los Angeles will be returning illegally excavated artwork and other treasures to Italy, among them one of the museum’s most prized pieces.
Paganism
Commission releases report on religious freedoms around the world
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The annual report issued in June by the U.S. Government’s Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) highlights the countries and entities around the globe where religious freedoms are under serious attack or being threatened.
Paganism
Remembering Dr. James Lovelock
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While not Pagan, the passing of Dr. James Ephraim Lovelock and his body of work had a definite impact on Pagan thought through Gaianism
cairns
Science Sunday: Conservationists and researchers say stone stacking has consequences
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Salamanders like those found in the Appalachian Mountains are threatened by stone stacking, a practice that conservationists and researchers say has real, even devastating, consequences for some species.
Paganism
New government measures curtail folk religion in China
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The Chinese government has instituted a number of new measures intended to curb the practice of folk religions, such as worship of figures like Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor, and Nong Zhigao, a culture hero who resembles Robin Hood.