Curated

Maxine, a pseudonym for a 58-year-old woman, is among a sizable proportion of Americans who are morally opposed to abortion.

A Florida school district has removed a 2013 picture book about a Jewish child whose fathers are gay from its school libraries, in the latest addition to a national book-banning wave spurred by conservative activism.

His completed geometry exercise in hand and a smile lighting up his eyes above his face mask, Victor Rodas rushed to the teacher as other students were still drawing.

Images from 31 unique ancient objects, including Christian manuscripts in Latin, the Getty’s treasured Rothschild Pentateuch in Hebrew and two printed Hebrew books — all dated between 1040 and 1592 — are on display in the “Painted Prophecy” show at…

When researchers for the American Bible Society’s annual State of the Bible report saw this year’s survey statistics, they found it hard to believe the results. The data said roughly 26 million people had mostly or completely stopped reading the Bible in…

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI turned 95 this past weekend, a significant milestone on its own but even more given he has now been a retired pope longer than he was a reigning one.

Time and time again, the nation’s highest court has come under fire for failing to manage potentially unethical behavior by its justices.

Nearly everyone on the planet is breathing air that could have adverse health impacts, according to a Word Health Organization report published April 4.

The hits keep coming at Hillsong Church, but they aren’t worship songs. The latest scandal regarding the global megachurch involves a 2021 internal investigative report leaked to The Christian Post that, according to the publication, details extensive stories of sexual abuse and…

The New York Times named Joseph Kahn as its next executive editor, the fifth Jewish editor in the position since it was instituted in 1964 as the newspaper’s top journalist job.

French President Emmanuel Macron tore into his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in a television debate Wednesday for her ties to Russia and for wanting to strip Muslim women of their right to cover their heads in public, as he…

A South Texas district attorney has withdrawn the death warrant his office issued for the execution of a death row inmate whose case led to the recent ruling allowing spiritual advisers to lay hands on and pray for a prisoner in the…