Ritualistic Baal worship, in sum, looked a little like this: Adults would gather around the altar of Baal. Infants would then be burned alive as a sacrificial offering to the deity. Amid horrific ...

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Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has narrated an encounter the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan had with cleric before the 2015 elections. Abdullahi ...

And it came to pass after many days…” So starts the triumph of Elijah over the priests of Baal, and the return of rain to a desert land. Many days here is a matter of years, and the kingdom of Israel ...

The first reading today is a core memory for me. It’s the part where Elijah tells the people to choose between the Lord and Baal, but they refuse. So he sets up a demonstration: He has the priests of ...

Baal was worshipped widely by a number of Bronze Age communities, particularly in the Middle East. He was prominent amongst the Canaanites and may have arose as a figure for worship in their cities.