Religion
France’s education minister has announced a ban on long robes in classrooms starting with the new school year, saying the garments worn mainly by Muslims are testing secularism in the nation’s schools.
A man has been sentenced to 42 years in prison after fatally shooting the pastor of the church he attended in New Hampshire in 2019.
An appeals panel has revived a couple’s lawsuit that alleges a Tennessee law unconstitutionally protects a decision by a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency not to help them because they are Jewish.
In the year since Roe v. Wade was reversed, New Mexico has emerged as a safe haven for those who provide abortions and those who need them.
The Danish government will propose a law that would make it illegal to desecrate any holy book in Denmark.
An Australian court has allowed a civil case to proceed against a Catholic archdiocese involving child sex abuse allegations against late Cardinal George Pell.
A former U.S. bishop accused and cleared of child sexual abuse has died. Retired Wyoming Bishop Joseph Hart was 91.
A London judge says life support treatment can be stopped for a brain-damaged English pastor in a coma.
A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims from India crashed in southern Nepal killing at least seven occupants and injuring others.
Nicaragua’s government has declared the Jesuit religious order illegal, and ordered the confiscation of all its property.
Health care facilities in Oregon will be allowed to return amputated body parts to patients for cultural, spiritual or religious reasons under a new law supported by tribes.
Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it will digitize 20,000 archival pages related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools.
Bagungu people who farm and worship in an oil-rich, remote region in Uganda are worried about the future of their sacred natural sites.
Authorities in Alabama have subpoenaed phone records of an Alabama priest and an 18-year-old woman who fled to Europe together to see if there is evidence of an improper relationship when she was a student.
South Carolina Republicans Nikki Haley and Tim Scott once were allies and now they’re rivals in the race to be the next president.
The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
San Francisco’s Roman Catholic archdiocese has filed for bankruptcy, saying the filing is necessary to manage more than 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by church officials.
Pakistani authorities have handed out $6,800 to each of the nearly 100 Christian families whose homes were destroyed or damaged by a Muslim mob angered over an alleged desecration of the Quran last week.
Texas Football magazine’s preseason high school rankings.
There could be some new rivalries between Christian schools brewing in the evolving Big 12 Conference.
Pope Francis has expressed hope for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Niger following the military coup in the West African nation.
Howard Hubbard, a retired Catholic bishop who acknowledged covering up allegations of sexual abuse in his upstate New York diocese and recently married a woman in a civil ceremony, has died after suffering from a massive stroke.
A Swiss citizen has been arrested in military-ruled Myanmar for creating a film that allegedly insulted Buddhism.
The archbishop of Cologne, one of Germany’s most important Catholic dioceses, has expressed disappointment that employees used work computers to try to access pornographic websites.
A Lebanese Shiite cleric who has angered politicians and religious leaders in Lebanon and Iraq says that groups including Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah are trying to silence voices of dissent within the sect — including his own.
Swedish police have detained a woman who sprayed an anti-Islam activist with a fire extinguisher as he staged a Quran-burning protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm.
Southern Baptist leader resigns from top administrative post for lying on his resume about schooling
Willie McLaurin, a Tennessee pastor who served as chief executive of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, has resigned.
After Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in the trailer for the upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” stoked criticism of antisemitism, the conductor’s children have come to the defense of the actor.
Sweden has raised its terror alert to the second-highest level. The move comes after a string of public desecrations of the Quran sparked angry demonstrations across Muslim countries and threats from militant groups.
Police in eastern Pakistan have arrested 129 Muslims after a mob angered over an alleged desecration of a Quran by two men attacked more than a dozen churches and homes of minority Christians.
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston has been ruled not guilty of an Australian charge of concealing his father’s child sex crimes.
