Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having more than one wife is a way to “avoid sexual temptation,” Dr. Vince Bantu allegedly argued, according to a new report (AP) ...

A recent Vatican document on marriage revives troubling assumptions about Africa and polygamy. Sr. Leonida Katunge asks: Why ...

P R O V O, Utah, May 18 -- Tom Green testified today that he never thought he was legally married to any of his five wives and thus couldn't have been a bigamist. "In the eyes of the government, I ...

The slaying in Mexico of nine people who belonged to a Mormon offshoot community where some people practice polygamy spotlights the mainstream church's struggle to distance itself from plural marriage ...

Editor’s note: This is the third story in a four-part series diving into the facts behind one fundamentalist Mormon group’s presence, and aftermath of another, the southern Black Hills of South Dakota ...

The Council of Ulema (scientific-theologians) of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (DUM) of the Russian Federation last week issued a fatwa allowing Muslims of the Russian Federation to enter up ...

Naomi Wright grew up in what she described as a polygamous cult near Buffalo, New York. Her father was the leader. Wright’s father amassed about 200 to 300 followers in western New York, central Ohio ...

A prominent evangelical pastor in St. Louis is living a secret double life as a polygamist, arguing that having multiple wives is a way to “avoid sexual temptation,” according to a pair of ...