Mata Amritanandamayi has hugged almost 27 million people—the most recent estimate. Known as Amma, or Mother, she offers an embrace said to be so blissful, so life changing, that people wait more than 15 hours for a few seconds in her arms.
Amma began hugging people as a teenager in her hometown in...
President Obama will soon receive a thank-you gift for his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo. Inspired by the address, in which Mr. Obama quoted the Koran, the Council on American-Islamic Relations plans to distribute 100,000 copies of the Koran to national, state and local leaders. ...
For the second time in two years, Polish officials began building a new museum of Jewish history in Warsaw on Tuesday that they hope will become a major cultural landmark.
An earlier groundbreaking ceremony for the planned Museum of the History of Polish Jews...