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One of the earliest saints to receive a firsthand glimpse into the heavenly realm was St. John the Evangelist. In the Book of Revelation he described the heavenly Jerusalem coming with “the glory of ...

Balance in a game usually concerns developers making sure a weapon isn’t too powerful in a multiplayer shooter or that every character is worth playing. But there’s also balance that needs to be ...

Baylor researcher: “If you believe in a harsher form of hell, you’re pretty sure you’re not going there.” “And the souls of the wicked are cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter ...

When I was a kid of ten or eleven years old, newly returned to New York after a few years living in Chicago, I started accompanying my mother to a church in Harlem, in a shallow, sunlit upper room ...

Pope Francis recently sparked a discussion when he told an Italian television program, “What I am going to say is not a dogma of faith but my own personal view: I like to think of hell as empty; I ...

In the history of the Catholic Church various saints and blesseds have described what hell is like and even exactly where “bad Christians” would be placed, based on visions and messages they received ...

Hell can be a fiery underworld inferno, a place of eternal torment, the home of Satan, Paradise Lost, Hades, Gehanna, Tartarus, Apollyon, Abaddon or a Katy Perry concert. But it can also be used to ...

In March 1992, Matthew Botsford walked out of a restaurant in Atlanta and found himself in the middle of a gun battle. He was struck in the back of the head with a 9mm bullet. Before he knew it, he ...

Hazbin Hotel fans watching along with the rollout of season 2 may be noticing a repeated image: two shapes that hang in the sky above Hell. They clearly represent Heaven and Hell in some capacity: One ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to George Kourounis, Royal Canadian Geographical Society's explorer-in-residence, about the possible closing of "The Gates of Hell," a natural gas field in Turkmenistan. Hell ...