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A religion news website that expects to tackle a variety of topics plans to launch this summer in Columbia. Religion News Service's headquarters will be at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. It will start a community-based Faith and Values ...
May 28, 2012 at 18:02 | Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Thirteen Roman Catholic dioceses and some Catholic-related groups scattered lawsuits across a dozen federal courts last week claiming that President Obama was violating their religious freedom by including contraceptives in basic health care ...
May 28, 2012 at 15:38 | Source: New York Times
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Seated near the gateway of a lamasery, 27-year-old Qiqige stares at the throngs of worshippers clutching burning bundles of incense as they pray. Unlike them she has little interest in bowing to the gods. Even though she grew up ...
May 27, 2012 at 08:02 | Source: Xinhua News Agency
Believing in an involved, morally active God makes people less likely to punish others for rule-breaking, new research finds. However, the researchers also find that religious belief in general makes people more likely to punish wrongdoers ...
May 23, 2012 at 22:11 | Source: Huffington Post
(CNN)-- Creating your own religion in the real world can result in weird looks, unusual friends and sometimes, visits from law enforcement officials. Creating your own religion in the soon-to-be-released expansion for "Civilization V" results in ...
May 21, 2012 at 16:01 | Source: CNN
Dismissing Law Minister Salman Khurshid's statement that he will take the 4.5% sub-quota issue to the Supreme Court, BJP on Tuesday said religion based reservation is not legally sustainable and Congress has misled the minorities with this ...
May 29, 2012 at 14:40 | Source: Daily News and Analysis
Results from the 2010 Religion Census were published recently and the U.S. states were ranked by the number of religious adherents as well as those that identify themselves as part of one religion or another. The 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious ...
May 29, 2012 at 18:51 | Source: HULIQ.com
You cannot understand the left if you do not understand that Leftism is a religion. It is not God-based (some left-wing Christians' and Jews' claims notwithstanding), but otherwise it has every characteristic of a religion. The most blatant of those ...
May 22, 2012 at 21:58 | Source: Investors Business Daily
The issue of a Jewish doctor violating the Shabbat to treat a non-Jew has come up again in Israel. The Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that one of Israel’s prominent rabbis, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was quoted as telling his ...
May 24, 2012 at 16:26 | Source: Denver Post
According to various sources, the Obama administration and its allies in the MSM pressured Mitt Romney into publicly repudiating a potential ad campaign by an independent Super PAC that would have tied Obama to Jeremiah Wright.  Their argument ...
May 22, 2012 at 18:23 | Source: RedState