Over 2 million Muslims will take part in this week’s Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, as one of the world’s largest religious gatherings returns to full capacity following years of coronavirus restrictions.
US Jews mourn the anniversary of the fall of Roe with a yahrzeit
U.S. Jews gathered in online forums across the country before sundown on Friday (June 23) to light a candle marking the one-year anniversary of the end of Roe v. Wade, and mourning those who have died because abortions were not…
Religion and public education: How a new charter school tests the law
More than six decades ago, a landmark United States Supreme Court decision deemed prayer in public schools unconstitutional. That hasn’t stopped other attempts to blur the line between taxpayer funding and religious education.
A Black preacher ‘no longer at war with her body’ on connecting flesh with the divine
Lyvonne Briggs describes herself as “a Black woman spiritual leader who is no longer at war with her body.” Her mission, in her new book, “Sensual Faith,” is to help other women stop being at war with their bodies too.
Muslim ‘Mother Theresa’ Receives Rare Honor: A Templeton Prize
Development economists’ debate if institutions or infrastructure are more important for a nation’s development. Edna Adan Ismail, the retired Somali politician, has done both.
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust to open in Berlin
When Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal first talked about his dream of building Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust, most people who heard about the plan were skeptical.
Train Up a Child: Ukraine’s Christian Schools Model Wartime Education
As air raid sirens blared down the hallways, Tetiana Garkun hurried her middle school students outside the My Horizons Christian School campus into the designated bomb shelter.
For church worship teams, Auto-Tune covers a multitude of sins. Especially online.
According to the Prophet Isaiah, grass withers, flowers fade, but God’s word endures.
Moms For Liberty chapter apologizes for quoting Hitler in its newsletter
An Indiana chapter of Moms For Liberty, a group that has advocated for book bans in school districts across the country, apologized for quoting Adolf Hitler in a newsletter this week.
Judge strikes down Florida Medicaid policy excluding gender-affirming care
A Florida rule excluding gender-affirming health care from Medicaid coverage is unlawful and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, adding that the policy, enacted last year under the administration of Republican Gov. and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, is based on politics rather…
Christian-owned Texas business shielded from LGBT bias claims, appeals court rules
A Christian-owned wellness center is exempt from the federal law prohibiting employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The first woman to head Unitarian Universalists ends term full of historic turns
The Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray was a high school softball player when she first organized others to act on their moral outrage. A teacher had barred girls from playing third base, catcher or shortstop during gym class. Frederick-Gray enlisted the other…