Source: The Guardian Ex-education secretary says assemblies, syllabus and admissions policy need change By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The law on RE has become a barrier to schools’ ability to help […]
Source: NPR BY Shankar Vedantam ,Laura Kwerel,Tara Boyle ,Rhaina Cohen,Parth Shah,Lucy Perkins and Jennifer Schmidt Let’s take a moment to go back in time. For most of human history, we […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Rosalie Chan (RNS) By now it is abundantly clear that religious groups have taken a stand on the moral necessity of combating climate change. Pope […]
Source: BBC News By Kelly Grovier The beautiful game? Football ought to be rechristened ‘the holy game’. After all, that is how people who cannot otherwise agree on anything else […]
Source: Pew Research Center Countries with the most extensive government restrictions on religion Most countries around the world have some form of restrictions on religion – whether it is through […]
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMO & DOMENICO MONTANARO Lots of controversial cases at the intersection of religion and the law wind up before the Supreme Court. And, for most of U.S. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Juliet Eilperin ABOARD THE SHIP MORE SPACIOUS THAN THE HEAVENS —Off the island of Spetses, the leader of 300 million Christians worldwide told a group of nearly […]
Source: CNN BY Analysis by Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)Less than a month ago, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian baker who refused to make a […]
Source: DW When Iran’s football squad beat Morocco 1-0 in their opening Wold Cup match, Iranians broke out in ecstatic jubilation. It was the first time in 20 years that the […]
Source: BBC News By Brandon Ambrosino Siri, do you believe in God? “Humans have religion. I just have silicon.” Siri, do you believe in God? “I eschew theological disquisition.” Siri, […]
Source: NPR BY SAMANTHA RAPHELSON Chavie Weisberger was raised in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Monsey, N.Y., and was forced to marry a man she barely knew when she was 19. […]
Source: Pew Research Center By several measures, young adults tend to be less religious than their elders; the opposite is rarely true (Chad Springer/Image Source/Getty Images) In the United States, […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Stephen Asma In the 1980s, only 10% of Americans said that they had no religious affiliation. Three decades later, more than 23% of Americans describe […]
5 facts about religion in India Source: Pew Research Center By Samirah Majumdar, who is a research analyst focusing on religion at Pew Research Center. India is home to 1.4 […]
Source: The Star Edmonton By CATHERINE GRIWKOWSKY EDMONTON—Wiccans have long fought against perceptions that their religion is shadowy, scary and sinister—but this June, they’re wearing their differences loud and proud. For […]
Source: The New York Times By Stephen T. Asma Mr. Asma is a professor of philosophy. It’s a tough time to defend religion. Respect for it has diminished in almost every corner of modern life — not just among atheists and intellectuals, but among the wider public, too. And the next generation […]
Source: Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A federal court has ruled that printing “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency doesn’t amount to a religious endorsement and therefore doesn’t violate […]
Source: The Guardian By Paul Karp Almost one in five public school parents have objected to religious views being shared with their children through school chaplains, a review has found. […]
Source: Iceland Monitor The Zuist society, founded in 2016 now wish to build a temple in Reykjavik. Leader Águst Arnar Ágústsson says it’s been his dream to build a temple […]
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has ordered local governments to better regulate the construction of large outdoor religious statues amid increasing restrictions on religious expression […]