A California school district is defending itself against claims by an atheist group that it violated the separation of church and state by allegedly reading the Bible during school board meetings.
The Islamic State terror group recently released 200 Yazidi hostages that it had been holding for several months in Iraq.
Saudi Arabia has reportedly halted the public flogging of a liberal blogger following international outcry.
Retired neurosurgeon and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is receiving criticism for recent comments he made regarding patriotism and the Islamic State.
A Virginia school district has done away with a \"religious exemption policy\" that allowed school officials to question Christian homeschooled students about their religious beliefs.
Recent satellite images taken over northern Nigeria show the recent destruction wreaked by the Boko Haram terror group that left 2,000 dead.
An international human rights watchdog group has condemned the recent ruling in Egypt that sentenced a student to three years imprisonment for expressing his atheist beliefs on Facebook.
A skidding prison bus\'s collision with a train killed 10 and injured 5 in Texas on Wednesday, local authorities report.
The mayor of Atlanta, Georgia has sparked a religious freedom debate after firing the city\'s fire chief for distributing Christian pamphlets to his co-workers that describe homosexuality as a sin.
The Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris has already released its new issue, less than one week after a terror attack that killed 12 of its key employees.
Two Mississippi lawmakers have created a bill proposing to make the Bible the official book of the southern state.
A Washington state school district has reached a settlement with a Christian organization that provides off-campus Bible instruction to public school students, agreeing to apologize, revise its policies and pay $275,000 in legal fees following a dispute over religious discrimination. Under the agreement with LifeWise Academy, Everett Public Schools also committed to providing religious liberty training for its school board members and modifying policies governing religious activities.
New federal survey data shows a notable decline in the percentage of younger American teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, prompting researchers and commentators to debate what may be driving the change. An analysis of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that the shift was especially pronounced among ninth-grade girls.
Nearly 80,000 people gathered with Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell and 2819 Church at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday for a large-scale evening of prayer and worship. Ed Newton, senior pastor of Community Bible Church in San Antonio, attended the event, known as “ACCESS — That Powerful Hour of Prayer.” Free tickets for the gathering were claimed within eight hours.
A South Carolina judge is preparing to dismiss lawsuits filed by the United Methodist Church’s South Carolina Conference against nearly 70 congregations seeking to leave the denomination while retaining their properties. The conference said Tuesday that Circuit Court Judge Brian M. Gibbons had informed the parties that he intends to dismiss the cases.
A Christian pastor who has spent years building relationships with Muslims and a historian who has studied Islamic history and doctrine debated whether Islam’s theological and political teachings allow the religion to coexist with Western society. Roberts said he once feared things like Sharia, or Islamic law, but realized the U.S. Constitution wouldn’t allow it.