Authorities are investigating the distribution of antisemitic and racist flyers in Colleyville, Texas, where a gunman took worshippers hostage at a synagogue last month. Colleyville is one of dozens of cities across the U.S. that have reported similar distribution of flyers in…
Oklahoma legislature advances Holocaust education bill
An Oklahoma state House committee unanimously approved a bill that would mandate Holocaust education in Oklahoma schools.
Air Force officers sue over religious exemption denials
A dozen U.S. Air Force officers have filed a lawsuit against the federal government after the military denied their religious exemptions to the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine.
Houses of faith are building affordable housing on their properties
Houses of worship own thousands of acres across the U.S., and now through millions of dollars in new grants, congregations in Atlanta, New York, Baltimore, Miami and Seattle will be building affordable housing on their properties.
A New Way To Translate The Bible — Using Non-Christian Translators
The Bible translation industry takes in about $500 million per year in donations. With all that money, it produces about 15 completed Bible translations each year. That comes to more than $30 million per translation. At this pace, it will take…
25 years later, Legion of Christ victims seek reparations
A Connecticut newspaper exposed one of the Catholic Church’s biggest sexual abuse scandals by reporting 25 years ago Wednesday that eight men had accused the revered founder of the Legion of Christ religious order of raping and molesting them when…
Arab Christian Scholars: Trade Minority Mindset for Abundant Life
A group of academic Christians in the Middle East has thrown down the gauntlet: The local church, bound in fear to its minority mindset, needs to walk afresh in the Holy Spirit.
After Seeing My Synagogue Attacked, How Can I Reconcile Security With Openness?
Two days after the trauma at my synagogue, I finally broke down in tears, trying to understand why anyone would target Congregation Beth Israel, a small congregation in an out-of-the-way place.
Israeli authority backs down from Mount of Olives park plan
Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority on Monday said it was backing down from a contentious plan to encompass Christian holy sites on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives in a national park following vociferous outcry from major churches.
Christian College Cancels Speaker From Faith Week Over Sermon On LGBTQ Issues
Students at Gordon College organized a rally “in solidarity with women and the LGBTQA+ community” after a speaker made what were characterized as misogynistic and transphobic remarks during a chapel service.
Make no mistake, if there’s a war between Russia and Ukraine, it will be a religious war
Putin has now ordered Russian troops into Donetsk and Luhansk. The first major conflict between two Orthodox Christian nations since the War of the Stray Dogs in 1925 has likely just begun.
Amid book bans, Muslim authors, parents advocate for children’s books representing Islam
When in September 2021, Pennsylvania’s Central York School District banned “The Arabic Quilt,” Aya Khalil’s award-winning debut picture book about fitting in at school, Khalil decided to write a book about her experience. “The Banned Books Bake Sale,” due out in spring of 2023,…