Philadelphia's Bible Riots of 1844 reflected a strain of anti-Catholic bias and hostility that coursed through 19th-century America. Granger Collection, New York Wading into the controversy ...
When American laws regulate the sexual lives of citizens, it is “religion by other means,” say Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini -- a massive dent in an already weakened wall between church and ...
IT is scarcely more than a platitude to say that we are living in an age of transformation of thought. It is not, perhaps, quite so much a platitude to say that we are apt to assume that certain ...
(RNS) — The people in the region of my birth were characterized by stoic independence or secular liberalism — or both. On Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings, I gathered with fellow believers in ...
Christian nationalists believe America was founded to be a Christian nation and Christianity should have a favored status. But our actual founding was quite different. Our nation was born out of a ...
As societies across the world retreat into hardened identities, tolerance is giving way to religious patriotism. From the ...
Despite Governor Zulum’s recent public gestures aimed at promoting religious harmony, the reality on the ground presents a starkly different picture for Christians in Borno State. Under his ...
"The University of Virginia said that student activity fees could be used to fund every student group: the Young Democrats, the lesbian and gay students group, the gardening club, the choir. But the ...
Sunday Oguntola, who was one of the nine specialists that attended a one-week religion reporting workshop by Thomson Reuters Foundation in Central London, United Kingdom, recently, reports on his ...
President Bola Tinubu has called on Nigerians to uphold religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence, saying no citizen ...
They were not in blackface, but otherwise a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister and a Jewish rabbi who appeared last week in Chapel Hill, N. C. went through a religious routine which closely ...