Founding member Duan said her generation "loves being independent and free-spirited" ...

The popular image of Emei's women fighters comes largely from best-selling novels by Hong Kong author Louis Cha, who wrote ...

In front of a secluded temple in southwestern China, Duan Ruru skilfully executes a series of chops and strikes, practising ...

In front of a secluded temple in southwestern China, Duan Ruru skillfully executes a series of chops and strikes, practicing kung fu techniques she has spent a decade mastering. Chinese martial arts ...

Chinese martial arts have long been considered a male-dominated sphere, but a cohort of Gen Z women is challenging that ...

In front of a secluded temple in south-western China, Duan Ruru skilfully executes a series of chops and strikes, practising ...

Aimee Semple McPherson was Christendom’s most flamboyant evangelist. Through all the messy court cases that kept her name on U.S. front pages in the ’20s and ’30s,* Aimee’s 35,000 ...

Her parents belonged to a religious sect known as The Saints, who opposed medical care, believing God would heal her. She died from diabetic ketoacidosis, which causes a dangerous build-up of ...

All 14 members of the religious sect who were convicted declined counsel and represented themselves in the trial.

The father and mother of Elizabeth Rose Struhs, as well as the leader and other members of the Saints sect, were convicted of manslaughter last month in the Queensland Supreme Court in Brisbane.

When they advanced on Damascus, there was chaos, and some people, through their individual behavior, threatened some of the sects. So fear followed. We are working on protecting sex and minorities ...