Author: Harrison Baker

Source: Ashland Daily Tidings

http://www.dailytidings.com/2008/0731/stories/0731_coven.php

Ashland's Rowan Tree Pagan Ministries may literally put the magic back in childhood this fall.

Rowan Tree Director of Children's Programs Selyna Faola'n plans to offer Rowan Academy, a preschool and kindergarten program for children ages 3 to 5, starting Sept. 22. The program can proceed if it meets an enrollment...

Author: Eilidh Morrison

Source: The Press and Journal

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/746735/?UserKey=0

Followers of witchcraft and Druidism gathered yesterday to begin a summer camp in Moray.

About 50 people set up tents and vans at Inchberry community hall, near Fochabers, for a three-day festival celebrating the pagan religion.

The Scottish Pagan Federation event is the first of its kind to be held in...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: United Press International

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/06/26/Paganism_growing_fast_in_US_Canada/UPI-87901214502167/

One of the fastest-growing religions in North America and Europe is new-fashioned paganism, a Canadian group says.

The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance estimates the number of people practicing some form of paganism doubles every year and a...

Author: Electa Draper

Source: The Denver Post

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-neo-pagansjun26,0,6813789.story

Give them that old-time religion — ancient religion — and then watch an exploding population of modern Pagans give it a contemporary twist.

The number of Neopagans roughly doubles about every 18 months in the United States, Canada and Europe, according to the Ontario...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/7465235.stm

Some 30,000 people celebrated the summer solstice as dawn broke at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

Druids, hippies and sun-worshippers were among those who gathered to watch the sun rise at the ancient stone circle at 0458 BST on the longest day.

Author: Alex Scapens

Source: Stockport Express

http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/s/1054460_shop_or_temple__witch_is_it

A BID to set up the UK’s first official Wiccan temple in Reddish is living on a prayer after the Government refused to recognise the building as a genuine place of worship.

Sandra Davis, high priestess at the Crystal Cauldron, on Gorton Road, is appealing the decision she claims is...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: NRIPulse

http://www.nripulse.com/CityNews_FL_SC.html

Less than a year after becoming the first Hindu American group to file an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief with the United States Supreme Court, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) continued its legal campaign with another brief in support of a petition for writ of certiorari. The case, Simpson v. Chesterfield County, involves legislative prayer. While the HAF’s...

Author: Melissa Walker

Source: The Des Moines Register

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080610/NEWS/806100380/-1/LIFE04

Robert Frost once said "good fences make good neighbors."

Apparently not when the fence is used to express religious beliefs.

A Des Moines couple say city officials have attacked their pagan religion and their civil rights after a complaint...

Author: Kamika Dunlap

Source: Inside Bay Area

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_9217445

People from all walks of life joined in the fun Saturday at the 7th Annual Pagan Festival and Parade.

It was a showing of acceptance and celebration across all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations and faith traditions at the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park. The event, organized by the Pagan Alliance, brought out a large crowd under this year's theme, "We...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Red Orbit/The Fresno Bee

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1371484/newer_scouting_group_serves_wise_ones_mother_earth/

In two years, the Boys Scouts of America celebrates 100 years of service. Meanwhile, a lesser-known organization, SpiralScouts, an alternative to mainstream scouting programs, is only 9 years old.

According to its Web site, www.spiralscouts.org, the...

Author: LISA CUPIDO

Source: Columbia News Service/The Modesto Bee

http://www.modbee.com/life/faithvalues/story/287826.html

On the morning of Anna-Jeannine Kemper's wedding, she, like many brides, will fasten the corset of her lace and taffeta ballroom gown, pick up her silk pink orchid and rose bouquet, and re-count her Champagne flute favors.

But while some brides pace nervously before the ceremony, Kemper, 25,will be busy blessing...

Source: Courier News

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/lifestyles/866504,3_5_EL30_FAITH_S1.article

The building retains its classically American-Protestant design outside, right up to the steeple pointing heavenward. Inside, the pews have been removed to accommodate Eastern worshippers, and the former pulpit focal point has given way to a 6-foot-tall white marble statue of Sai Baba.

This is the Shirdi Sai Temple, a...

Author: Samir Abdel-Aziz

Source: The Parthenon

http://media.www.marshallparthenon.com/media/storage/paper534/news/2008/03/21/News/Marshall.Pagans.Invoke.Spirits.To.Bring.About.A.New.Year-3277889.shtml

The Marshall University Pagan Association, a Neo-Pagan organization, performed the ritual of Ostara, the virgin goddess of spring, on Buskirk Field...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7268111.stm

Campaigners have submitted a petition to the Scottish Parliament calling for the last woman convicted under the Witchcraft Act to be pardoned.

Helen Duncan spent nine months in Holloway prison after being found guilty at a trial in 1944.

She had told a séance a warship had sunk before the news...

Source: PRNewswire/U.S. Commission on Civil Rights