Religious liberty must be balanced against other values. Not surprisingly, they become the stuff of intense legal and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in a trio of rulings expected in the coming weeks appears inclined to extend its trend of taking an ...

A shaman is a specialist who, through non-ordinary states, engages with unseen realities and provides services like healing ...

A silence. Long, profound, intense, even solemn, yet without heaviness. From the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, the man who had just appeared in a plain white cassock—with no other adornments ...

South Africa's Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities ...

I've spent 30 years helping Californians learn more about themselves and their history, largely through grants from the ...

A PROGRAMME to improve Thurrock Council’s planning function is making good progress according to a peer review reports Thurrock Nub News. Members of the review team revisited the authority in late ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Are the rules about discussing religion in social settings somewhat relaxed when someone volunteers that they (or their family) are clergy? For instance, I’d never ask someone ...

In one case, a majority of justices appear poised to give parents more leeway to opt out of curriculum they deem objectionable to their sincerely held religious beliefs. “What I’ll be looking ...

The death of Pope Francis last Monday has prompted believers, agnostics and atheists alike to reflect on the role of religion in daily life. Religiosity in the Western world has been waning for ...

An analysis of manuscript preparation guidelines across 541 ecology and evolution journals reveals widespread paucity in guidelines intended to make journal articles accessible to people with ...

[SINGAPORE] All party leaders should make it clear that mixing religion and politics is unacceptable, said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Saturday (Apr 26), a day after the Republic blocked ...