The Jewish news service JTA considers initial reactions of Jewish faith leaders to the death of Osama bin Laden.

An editorial in The Jewish Daily Forward welcomed the news and praised the Obama administration’s handling of the raid.

The National Study of Youth and Religion, in a nationally representative survey of more than 3,000 American teenagers, found teens to be open to the idea of the paranormal while remaining somewhat skeptical. Relatively few were certain they believed in things such as psychics, astrology or communicating with the dead. But 40 percent of the teens surveyed said […]

A poll of nearly 500 college students, reported in the January-February 2006 issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, found that college seniors and graduate students were more likely to believe in paranormal concepts than freshmen.

A May 2, 2011, CNN story says the Muslim world had largely soured on bin Laden since 9/11.

In a New York Times article about reactions worldwide, Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed, former head of the militant Islamist group Al Muhajiroun, called bin Laden a martyr and predicted “he will be a role model to Muslim youth.”

Read a June 16, 2006, Catholic News Service story about the 25th anniversary of the Medjugorje apparitions, including debate over whether they involve supernatural elements.

Leaders of Hamas and the Taliban mourned the death of Osama bin Laden and threatened retaliation.

Visit the website of the documentary Living Miracles, chronicling stigmata, healings and other supernatural happenings in Catholicism today.