Saudi Arabia has temporarily banned religious pilgrims from visiting Mecca or Medina to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the Kingdom

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Walgreens, turning away an appeal by a fired former Florida employee of the pharmacy chain who asked not to work on Saturdays for religious reasons as a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The justices declined to review a lower court ruling in Darrell Patterson’s […]

Today we present excerpts from two books, one published and one work-in-progress, that will deepen your knowledge of the natural world, spirit, and what lies beyond. The first, from Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience, delves into peak, mystical, religious or paranormal experiences in nature and the spirituality arising from the earth. […]

Hundreds of backers of Montenegro’s pro-Serb opposition took to the streets of the capital Podgorica on Thursday, rallying against a law they say would strip the Serbian Orthodox Church there of its property. Ahead of a vote on the draft Law on Religious Freedoms, expected later on Thursday or on Friday, Serbian Orthodox clergy and […]

The question is whether teachers whose primary responsibility is education can be treated as "ministers" and exempted from discrimination laws.

David Starkey, 74, said Remembrance Day services in Britain wrongly make soldiers out to be either ‘heroes or victims’.

Professor Jean Decety of the University of Chicago has been forced to retract his report four years after it was first published in the Current Biology journal.

The day after Seyi Omooba was cast in the production, the emergence of an old Facebook post in which she quoted the Bible to express her Christian beliefs led to her being sacked as a ‘homophobe’.

Earlier today, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutional order, limited the reach of expansive nondiscrimination laws, and protected a Christian couple from having to choose between their business and their conscience.The facts of the case are simple. The plaintiffs, Carl and Angel Larsen, are videographers who create “commercials, short films, and live-event […]

Joe Darby, a South Carolina pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, pondered a sensitive question that he knew was on the mind of his congregation. Would black voters be able to reconcile their conservative religious doctrine with voting for a gay candidate for president? “It’s a heavy lift in the black church,” says Darby, […]