Religion

I wish some of the pundits weighing in on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's religious practices could display half the empathy of my students. Many religious practices seem unfamiliar, weird and even threatening to outsiders.

Sister Simone Campbell says the president and attorney general William Barr should not have been invited to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

"It's always the thing that they say first. That's what they're going to do," the president warned his supporters.

Federal Election Commission Chair James E. "Trey" Trainor III, an appointee of President Donald Trump who worked for his 2016 campaign, insisted that there is no separation between church and state while calling the upcoming election a "spiritual war" between "good and evil."

Rabbi Moshe Hauer of the Orthodox Union said that the coronavirus pandemic has "changed life for the faith community."

The travesty of Xinjiang focuses a lot of attention on China, but we must not forget that Russia is also a notorious infringer of human rights and civil liberties.

The complaint, filed last week in Putnam County Common Pleas Court, responds to Ohio Department of Health Interim Director Lance Himes' order signed August 13.

Ukraine's Patriarch Filaret is recovering in hospital after previously blaming the virus as "God's punishment for the sins of men."

Citing U.S. abortion discussions, Jesuit priest Father James J. Martin urged fellow Catholics against claiming a vote for Joe Biden is a "mortal sin."

The lockdowns have gone on long enough. The church must meet.

"We have learned enough about the past to know that we had no choice but to take the leadership of Liberty University in a new direction," school officials said.

Now is the perfect time to seize the moment and launch a new, forward-thinking movement.

Trump's recent slide in the polls among a core group of supporters who aided his 2016 victory—white, evangelical voters—could jeopardize his chances of staying in office.

Khaki-colored garments for Orthodox priests have been on display at a military fair in Moscow.

Tolerance is a two-way street.

Kolbe offered to replace the man in a starvation cell after hearing him cry out to be saved, because he had a family.

How you can help the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang, China.

The singer referenced Kabbalah which she famously practiced in the mid-2000s, along with several other celebrities at the time.

The First Amendment does not disappear during a pandemic.

First Liberty Institute President, CEO and Chief Counsel Kelly Shackelford debates former White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships Director Melissa Rogers.

Americans should not trade the system that has served us so well.

The duty to protect religious liberty falls to like-minded citizens all across the country.

A court in the Ivanovo Region convicted Yevgeniy Spirin, 34, on charges related to extremism. Jehovah's Witnesses have been banned in Russia since 2017.

In the video, which invoked God multiple times, the Oscar-winning actor claimed "left-wing behavior" was destroying the nation but Trump would "protect" America.

"if you wear a MAGA hat, you may be fired, or if you say, 'I like what President Trump did the other day,' you might be fired, completely removed from the set, and that's wrong," the actor told "Newsweek."

"We're open to really any type of movie of any type of relationship."

The religion has been outlawed in Russia since 2017 since when there have been a number of arrests of followers.

"The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition," their website explains.

This year's rulings may look like mixed results for liberals and conservatives, but a closer examination shows the truth: This is the Supreme Court of the Christian right.

Leaders of the Genesis II Church of Health & Healing in Bradenton, Florida were charged on Wednesday after selling an alleged cure for COVID-19.