Source: The New York Times By DENNIS OVERBYE MARCH 21, 2018 Stephen Hawking will be interred at Westminster Abbey in London, keeping company with the likes of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton. CreditBruno […]
Source: Associated Press By DAVID RISING BERLIN (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday upheld Germany’s decision to take away the children of families in a Christian […]
Source: The Globe and Mail BY CAROLINE ALPHONSO Ontario’s Education Minister is concerned that a Catholic school board did not properly consult with the community before adopting a controversial policy […]
Source: TORONTO STAR By ALEXANDRA JONES York Regional Police are investigating a “hate-motivated crime” after the front doors of a synagogue in Thornhill were smashed in an apparent outburst of anti-Semitic […]
Source: Religion News Service By Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Religious leaders who campaign for wildlife conservation are mourning the death of the world’s last male northern white rhino, calling […]
Source: BBC News The Archbishop of Canterbury has said how “ashamed” he is of the Church in the wake of the child sex abuse inquiry. The Most Rev Justin Welby told […]
Source: The Guardian Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Court rules church had right to bar Jeremy Pemberton from NHS job because he had married Canon Jeremy Pemberton (right) claimed he was discriminated […]
Source: THE WICHITA EAGLE BY DION LEFLER A group of nonbelievers is asking the Sedgwick County Commission to either drop its weekly religious invocation entirely or replace it with a […]
Source: USA Today A bill requiring Tennessee schools to prominently display the national “In God We Trust” motto is headed to the governor for his signature. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Susan […]
Source: USA Today Ron Maxey, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal MEMPHIS — A pastor accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Texas 20 years ago resigned from his ministerial post Tuesday at […]
Source: Associated Press By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is investigating a former missionary training center president who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman […]
Source: CBS This Morning One of the largest subway construction projects in the country is providing a window into Los Angeles’ ancient past. We first took you underground last summer where […]
Source: RNS By Joshua Hammerman (RNS) — I’ll be joining local teens on the March for Our Lives on Saturday (March 24), and by traveling, I will violate the Jewish Sabbath […]
By SINAN ANTOON MARCH 19, 2018 A statue of Saddam Hussein in front of the burning National Olympic Committee in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times […]
Source: Wired By EMMA BRYCE In October 2017, Charlie Paton was driving across the parched plains of northwestern Somaliland when he passed a seemingly endless queue of rumbling trucks. Each was […]
Source: The Washington Post By Swati Gupta More than 350 Hindu priests have gathered in India this week for a multiday religious ceremony to pray that the gods deliver them […]
Source: Reuters By Raya Jalabi MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – For residents of the Old City, returning to Mosul is an exercise in trying to forget. Moayad stands in front of […]
Source: The Guardian BY Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent Pontiff to visit in August, three months after country votes on whether to repeal ban Pope Francis waves to the faithful in St […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The head of the Vatican’s communications department resigned Wednesday after he mischaracterized a private letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI, […]
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Anti-Defamation League is lashing out at one of Israel’s chief rabbis for comparing black people to monkeys. The New York City-based organization devoted […]