PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — A man was shot in the face and killed during a Masonic initiation ceremony by a fellow member who mistakenly pulled out a real pistol instead of a blank gun, police said Tuesday ...

Chest Lid with Masonic Painting (1825–1845) (image courtesy American Folk Art Museum, gift of Kendra and Allan Daniel, all images courtesy the Bullock Texas State History Museum and the American Folk ...

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - A man was shot in the face and killed during a Masonic initiation ceremony by a fellow member who mistakenly pulled out a real pistol instead of a blank gun, police said Tuesday. The ...

Taken as a whole, few groups are as interesting as fraternal organizations. Although somewhat out of fashion today, fraternal orders have historically played outsized roles in communities across ...

District Deputy Grand Master John Lovett, Jr., representing all the masons of Masonic District 27 presided over the lodge ceremony where members honored Arlis R. Williams with a 50-year pin for his ...

The United Grand Lodge of England is the site of Freemasons in England. Freemasonry is a fraternal order that was born out of the medieval stonemasons' guilds. What's spoken about in its meetings is ...

We spoke to three Masons at the United Grand Lodge of England, the governing body of Freemasonry in England. The United Grand Lodge of England has around 200,000 members meeting in over 7,000 Lodges ...