TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - State Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) has authored legislation that would provide good conduct time for inmates if they study religious texts, impacting their parole. “It’s about ...
Rabbi Rachel Gartner, director of Jewish Chaplaincy, outlined the complex challenges of interpreting Jewish religious texts on Tuesday. Director of Muslim Chaplaincy Imam Yahya Hendi and Director of ...
(RNS) — This summer in Sweden, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee with reported ties to an extremist Christian militia group, burned the Quran in front of a Stockholm mosque on Eid al-Adha and outside ...
At South Florida's immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," multiple constitutional violations over recent months have exposed that religious rights are being treated as revocable ...
Denmark's parliament on Thursday passed a new law banning the desecration of all religious texts. The law comes as international outrage over recent public desecrations of the Quran triggered furious ...
(RNS) — State officials in the South have recently reignited debates over teaching religion in public schools, with Oklahoma’s superintendent of schools issuing a mandate for schools to teach the ...
For years, Arvo Pärt has been one of the most performed contemporary classical composers in the world. Calle Hesslefors/ullstein bild via Getty Images Pärt emerged from a period of personal artistic ...
The nation’s capital is known to be the home of many very old documents like the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Emancipation Proclamation. But for the next several months, some of the ...
Spanning across the Bible, Bhagavad Gita, Guru Granth Sahib, and the Quran, the courts across India referred to religious ...
“Nones” are adults who describe themselves religiously as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” This report uses the terms “nones” and “religiously unaffiliated” interchangeably. Negative ...
Under the U.S. Constitution, public schools cannot promote or advance any particular religion, and they must respect the individual religious beliefs of students and staff. What that looks like in ...