By Ayya Lmahamad
The U.S. has included Azerbaijan to the list of countries with the full religious freedom, the State Committee for Work with Religious Structures has reported.
This was stated in the statement published by...
New York, NY (Top40 Charts) British indie-pop band Pale Waves have released a deeply personal video for their latest single "She's My Religion," which features frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie and her life partner Kelsi Luck...
Lucknow: India is moving on a path where nobody stays behind because of his religion and the schemes made today for the poor are reaching them without any religious discrimination, Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
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And on the eighth day God created Zoom.
You might be tempted to believe that, talking to faith leaders in 2020. From Quakers to Muslims, Unitarians to Jews, the faithful across the world have had to adapt to these challenging times, and …
The new citizenship test, which immigrants began to use this month, no longer includes a question dealing specifically with the right to religious freedom, one of the Constitution’s defining liberties.
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New release invites listeners to “read” the entire Catholic Bible in a year, podcast-style
“The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)” has become the #1 podcast on Apple’s chart for “Religion and Spirituality”...
The Church recognizes the martyrdom of Rosario Angelo Livatino, killed “in odium fidei” (in hatred of the faith) by the Mafia in 1990; as well as the heroic virtues of seven other Servants of God.
COMMENT | Many years ago, I spoke to Baru Bian, then of PKR, about the role of his religion, Christianity, in his “perjuangan” (mission). I recalled him saying that the Bible taught that its...
Josh Packard, executive director of Springtide. Courtesy photo
(RNS) — More than half of teens and young adults who say they are affiliated with an organized religion also say they have little or...
Deprived of its usual tourist influx by the pandemic, Bethlehem will celebrate a quiet Christmas this year that is less about commerce and more about religion, says its parish priest.
In a normal year hundreds...
The National Secular Society has urged the UK's new envoy on freedom of religion or belief, Fiona Bruce, to take an even-handed rather than selective approach to promoting the principle.
Fiona Bruce was appointed as...
Fiona Bruce has been appointed as the UK Government's new Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB).
Bruce, a committed Christian, said the plight of young Christian girls like Leah Sharibu, kidnapped by...
By — Shyamal Sinha The Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today addressed the valedictory session of Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) and Deshkal Society on 3rd Edition of Bodh Gaya Global Dialogue on “Sustainable Development, Heritage and Enlightenment” through virtual mode here at Raj Bhavan. Addressing the delegates on the occasion, the Lt Governor […]
Regular discussions among growing numbers of residents in a South Kivu village are stimulating a local discourse on health and have inspired hundreds to united action.
This past week a group defining themselves as Secular Democrats of America submitted a 28-page letter to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden calling on them to expunge religion from all sectors of American public life and...
Late Bollywood music director Wajid Khan’s wife, Kamalrukh has come up again with a new revelation and said that Wajid threatened to divorce her in the year 2014 as she was not ready to...
SHIMLA: With Himachal Pradesh home department fixing December 18 as the date to implement provisions of the Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 2019 (13 of 2019), any forced religious conversion will be a...
Religious leader recently returned from self-exile after leaving the country in 2017 amid allegations of involvement in a pornography case.
Supporters of firebrand Indonesian Muslim leader Rizieq Shihab have clashed with police during a demonstration in …
The President, Federation of Muslim Women Associations in Nigeria, Mrs Halima Jibril, on Saturday charged religious leaders to promote religion tolerance to engender national development.
Jibril gave the charge in Abuja at the...
Recently, an anonymous statement was posted on Facebook stating the route they were going to take in this touchy, politically correct world and I agree: “As the world attempts to figure out all the trials and tribulations, I’ll be letting people cut in …
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar By — Shyamal Sinha C M Nitish Kumar inspected construction works at the Buddha Samyak Darshan museum and the Buddha Memorial Stupa near Vaishali, about 60km north of Patna. There are many claims of Gautama Buddha relic but none of them are authentic. The relic which was found in Vaishali is apparently the only […]
Opponents often erect a straw man of secularism to justify demands for religious privilege. But freedom of religion must come with freedom from religion, says Stephen Evans.
There was little sign of Christmas spirit in...