MANORVILLE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A Long Island man is facing hate crime charges, accused of terrorizing people based on his perception of their religion and sexual orientation.
Christopher Keller, of Manorville, appeared in a Suffolk...
Catholic leaders often whisper about “Christmas and Easter Catholics”: people whose names are found on parish membership rolls, but who are rarely seen in the pews – except during crowded Christmas and Easter rites.
Thus, any study of the COVID-19 pandemic …
State of Baden-Württemberg loses in court against a Scientologist
EUToday has just reported about this new legal defeat of a German state when discriminating a Scientologist at the workplace for his beliefs. The EuToday newsportal...
The Tennessee Statehouse needs to stop attempting to foist Christianity upon the residents of the state and start working to address their real needs.
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Fewer Americans are attending traditional church services. Fewer are attending Catholic schools, too.
According to Gallup, the number of Americans who belong to a church, synagogue or mosque continued to decline last year, dropping below...
Silliness trumps scares in Christopher Smith’s “The Banishing,” a bewildering haunted-house tale larded with Nazis, mad monks, fallen women and a tango-dancing occultist. Why no one thought to include a zombie or two is anyone’s guess.
The house in …
Nearly 9 in 10 U.S. adults have a mixture of worldviews, otherwise known as syncretism, and only small percentage hold a biblical worldview, a new study by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University shows.
COMECE and CEC: “Churches have an important message and value to add to the Conference on the Future of Europe”
The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) and the Conference of...
MILLIONS of citizens would have failed to detect the significance of a statement issued by two big ethno-religious political parties last month expressing their stand over usage of a West Asian term for God...
Reaching out to help the most vulnerable as Italy contends with a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Teams of Scientologists continue their yearlong campaign to assist vulnerable populations, as social services are hard-pressed to...
The efforts of young adolescents to improve air quality and provide shelter from the heat had the added benefit of preventing a patch of road from eroding when floods hit
The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) releases on Tuesday 13th April 2021 the statement “One year after: What place for social, ecological and contributive justice in the EU recovery...
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Hassan Kukah, says though Nigerians profess two main religions with strong themes of love and togetherness, such themes are rarely ever practised.
The Bishop has now attributed the frequent rise...
The office desk I use isn’t exactly modern art. It stems from the 40s or 50s, a hand-me-down that has served well but will never win a beauty contest. It was made during the...
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Before I get to House Bill 544, the proposed law that would proscribe the teaching of uncomfortable subjects to New Hampshire students, I’d like to imagine that we will be able travel...
Scientology Volunteer Ministers have volunteered more than a million hours in South Africa in the past year, helping the people of the country survive the pandemic.
South Africa is in a level one lockdown with...
The first significant distinction of the newly constituted Supreme Court concerns the free exercise of religion from government control. The latest evidence is the 5-4 ruling late Friday slapping down another California pandemic diktat...
… discriminated against based on his religion. But the tribunal disagreed. … discriminated against because of their religion, they must show: They … conduct harmed their employment Religion was a factor in …...
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A week of disorder across Norther Ireland has left growing numbers of police officers injured, and Catholic and a Church of Ireland bishops were among those who joined for an ecumenical service before walking together to a peace wall gate at the center of clashes.
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church on Sherman Way at Orion Avenue, Van Nuys. (Google Street View)
Here is a sampling of indoor, outdoor and online religious services in the San Fernando Valley area.
Temple Beth Hillel services: Havdalah online, 7 p.m. …
<div class="td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_top td_uid_3_60729198e9526_rand td_block_template_1"><div class="a-single a-212"><a class="gofollow" data-track="MjEyLDAsMSw2MA==" href="https://www.steschools.org/"><img src="https://thedialog.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/St.E.web_.March2021.jpg"/></a></div></div>As if the bishops needed anything more to worry about these days, <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx">Gallup released a poll just before...