The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reaffirmed the right of a Catholic school to employ only teachers who live according to the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. In a unanimous judgment, the court affirmed that the Diocese of Charlotte was well within its rights to fire Lonnie Billard, a former English and […]
“We, the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan, have been living in this land for about 2500 years. During this period, the people of Azerbaijan have embraced us and protected us from dangers.
The religious urge is born into nearly every child. And when we do not inherit a belief system, we build our own temples.
The Beehive State has the largest share of religious adherents out of every other state in the nation, according to new research from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah.
The Vatican on Friday radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena that have long punctuated church history, putting the brakes on making definitive declarations unless the event is obviously fabricated.
Last year, 42% of the Dutch considered themselves to be members of a religious community, down from 53% 10 years ago, national statistics agency CBS said on Friday. The decline is largely under Catholics. In 2013, 26% of the population said they were Catholic, but that has now fallen to 17%. The number of people who are members of one of the variety of Protestant churches in the Netherlands fell from 16% to 13% over the same period. The number
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The exponential growth of artificial intelligence over the past year has sparked discussions about whether the era of human domination of our planet is drawing to a close. The most dire predictions claim that the machines will take over within five to 10 years.
Attorneys for a former Jurupa Unified School District teacher who sued the district for firing her over what she argued were religious grounds because she questioned a policy not to tell parents about children’s gender identity choices announced Tuesday that a settlement had been reached. “What happened to me can happen to anybody, and I […]
Religion, in the Communist mind, is to be controlled by the state and made subservient to its interests, not the individual’s. To them, the soul doesn’t exist.
To the editor: Honoring Father Greg Boyle, who runs the L.A. gang intervention program Homeboy Industries, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom was long overdue. Boyle practices the tenets of his faith with humility, dedication and love. He is truly a living saint. I am neither Catholic nor religious, but heroes like Boyle give me some hope for the future. Ephraim Moxson, Los Angeles .. To the editor: Father Greg Boyle — hope for the broken, joy for the discarded, love for all. John Gallogly,...
The row over student accommodation in Coventry has deepened after a planning application was approved for a 12-storey block of flats in the city centre