Congratulations to 16-year-old North Buncombe High School student Bryan Killian for standing up—and even dressing up with an eye patch and pirate’s inflatable sword—for freedom of speech, religion and ...

August 15, 2018 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - MAY, 22: Unidentified participants play scene in defile during Zinneke Parade on May 22, 2010 in Brussels. This parade is a free biennial local artistic event open ...

The Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a real thing and a woman in Massachusetts gets to wear a colander on her head in a government-issued photo as a result. (File that under “sentences I ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman says she encountered only brief resistance when she recently had her driver’s license photo taken while wearing a colander on her head as a religious statement. Asia ...

Flickr user Jennifer Morrow captioned this 2010 photograph: "May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage this holiday season." (Jennifer Morrow/Creative Commons) Dear followers of His Flying Noodleness ...

People who consider themselves pastafarian may not wear a colander on their head for their passport picture ruled the highest administrative court of the Netherlands. Pastafarianism — whose followers ...

After three years of waiting, Nico Alm of Austria has won the right to wear a pasta strainer on his head in his driver’s license photo. Alm is an atheist but he’s also a “Pastafarian,” a member of The ...

OLYMPIA — Officials have appealed a Pierce County court commissioner’s order that could result in the new head of Western State Hospital being jailed. The commissioner ruled Friday that Cheryl Strange ...

A parody religious group who believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, may become an officially recognised religion, after court battle The Worshipping of an invisible flying spaghetti monster may ...

People arrive in costume, including one of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, during the Comedy Central rally in Washington, D.C. Getty This week, a Russian man won the right to wear a knitted yellow ...