Religion

Jerome Kunkel, 18, sued the Northern Kentucky Health Department for banning unvaccinated students from school amid a chickenpox outbreak in March. Two months later, he has caught the contagious disease.

Editorial choices by the Daily Mississippian, the campus paper at the University of Mississippi, suggest a bias against Christians and toward leftist views. That's not right.

Discussing his chances against Trump, Buttigieg said no one will "play his game better than he does, and so we've got to do something completely different."

An editorial argued that China did not "have to be swayed by the whining" of the international community.

"The communal aspects of Ramadan are often a way to collectively organize around issues that are critical to a young and vibrant community, Dr. Homayra Ziad told Newsweek.

A review of persecution of Christians across the world finds alarming evidence that extremists are getting closer to eradicating Christianity in some areas.

The Freewinds vessel has left St. Lucia after several days being held in quarantine.

Sikhs have served in the U.S. military since World War One.

"God Bless this great nation where we cherish the freedom of religion," the first lady tweeted.

"The Scientology ship, The Freewinds, is where they reach one of the highest levels of Scientology & are supposed to be impervious to 'Wog Illness," former church member Leah Remini wrote on Twitter.

"Russian authorities have arrested, fined, or imprisoned members; community property has been seized; and there have been numerous reports of harsh interrogations and allegations of torture," the U.N. noted.

At least 15 homes and meeting centers were hit in raids last week.

For the island nation rocked by more than two decades of civil war, the Easter Sunday attacks came during a time of relative peace.

Fundraiser for three Louisiana churches destroyed by fires has earned almost $1.9 million following the Notre Dame tragedy.

The fact Summer Grant's children had different fathers didn't align with the school's Christian values, an administrator said.

"After the war with Islamic State people were looking for the right path, and distancing themselves from Islam," said Omar Firas, the founder of the church.

"The abolition spirit is undeniably atheistic," the pastor said in 1860.

Lauren London, the girlfriend to late rapper Nipsey Hussle, said he would burn sage each morning.

The idea that humans form part of a greater whole—from nature to a divine being— have been explored by a range of religions and philosophical traditions stretching as back to at least the ancient Greeks and Hindus.

Paula White, President Donald Trump's spiritual adviser and chair of his evangelical advisory committee, says God gave her a direct assignment to the White House.

"Maybe I will become in a position to broker that peace deal," Mayor Pete Buttigieg said during "The Breakfast Club" podcast.

The all-female board of Women Church World, which is published alongside the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, gained international attention when it exposed the abuse of nuns by clergy, quit en masse over what it said was a campaign by the Holy See to sabotage the magazine's work.

After a recent mass, the pontiff could be seen forcefully pulling his hand away each time someone made a move toward the ring that he wears on his right hand.

Altars were vandalized, statues were defaced and human excrement was smeared onto a cross, sparking fears of a rise in anti-Catholic sentiment in the country.

The Dalai Lama warned that China may choose its own Tibetan Buddhist as his successor after he dies.

Andrzej Oniszczuk, a Polish citizen, was detained last year along with other worshippers.

Trump infamously called "for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" before taking office.

"I was on the ground faking it," Mustafa Boztas said.

"Be there for them. Check in. Perhaps extend a kind gesture at your local mosque," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter following the New Zealand mosque attacks.

"Jesus is a superhero, not this superhero," said David Brody of the Christian Broadcast Network.