Thailand: Buddhist activists have decided to discontinue their campaign for Buddhism to be acknowledged as the state religion in the new constitution.  read more »

Muslims in the Scottish district of Tayside are outraged by the appearance of a wide-eyed, 6-week-old puppy on postcards distributed by the local police force, according to the Daily Mail.Postcards sh  read more »

A school was planning on showing a rather graphic "gay rights" video in schools without notifying parents.

The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has added Free Thinkers of Colorado Springs to the religious education program.

Four members of a Christian group from the United States are refusing to leave an airport in China after authorities confiscated their 300 Bibles, the group's director said Monday.

If any bailout legislation passes, the government will likely hold mortgages purchased from banks and attempt to sell them as soon as their value climbs high enough.  read more »

The president sent congratulation letters to all his counterparts in Christian countries over Jesus Christ's birthday and the New Year and felicitated their nations.

The author thinks that the "radical Christian Right" is about to take over country’s military and law enforcement. He's working on a book called "American Fascists" which is all about the Christian Right.  read more »

The U.S.-led coalition's "shortsightedness and ignorance" inIraq have endangered the lives of Christians across the Middle East, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said in a scathing commentary Saturday.  read more »

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said that the Israeli-built wall around the traditional site of Jesus' birth symbolized what was "deeply wrong in the human heart."

And what of the ter  read more »

Congressional candidate (and WELS Lutheran) Michele Bachmann is asked whether or not the WELS teaches that the Pope is the antichrist.

Always eager to offer sops to minorities, the Andhra Pradesh government of chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Monday decided to dole out subsidies, on the lines of the Haj scheme, for Christians  read more »

An appeals court panel apparently has given the OK for prayers mentioning Jesus' name in the Indiana state legislature to return, tossing out a lawsuit Oct.  read more »

An ACLU lawsuit to allow Muslims to swear in court using the Koran. Is this really a problem?

The Minnesota Court of Appeals says churches can ban guns from their property, and they don't have to follow a state law specifying how to post signs that say guns are prohibited.

According to media reports coming out of Latin America, President Chavez is considering a proposal that would establish him as the high priest of his own form of evangelical Christianity, convert his cabinet members into bishops of a lower rank, and submit church activities to the civil and military power of his government.

I'm trying to imagine the Venezuelan president as clergy.  read more »

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York will today support the findings of a report criticising the government for its failure to recognise the Church of England's contribution to the public sphere.Mor  read more »

A Christian law group is accusing Mount Rushmore officials of trampling the free speech and religious rights of a Coon Rapids, Minn., man who alleges he cannot get a permit to distribute r  read more »

ISTANBUL, Turkey - For Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal, two best friends, enjoying a casual walk along the streets of Istanbul has taken on new meaning. In the next couple of months, the two converts from Islam to Christianity could face the prospect of spending up three years behind bars.

Last week or so, we had an article on religious freedom in Turkey, yet sharing the Gospel is an "insult to Turkishness" and a criminal offense.  read more »

While pleased that Father Pfleger did offer something close to an apology for his mean-spirited, racial remarks about Hillary Clinton (and other white people), had he stopped there, I know the issue w  read more »

Obama doesn't have a church in Chicago since he severed ties in April with his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.  read more »

The five-day visit by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom ended Friday.  read more »

The request befuddled Leah Daughtry.  read more »

Next week, the group started by Gaylor and her mother in the 1970s to take on the religious right will fight its most high-profile battle when the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on its  read more »

An atheist seeking to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and U.S.  read more »

An atheist soldier who accused U.S.  read more »

For variety of reasons, comparing Palin to Pontius Pilate and Obama to Jesus Christ has not gone over very well in some circles.

The Sadr City area of Baghdad, following a firefight between American and insurgent Iraqi military forces, was left with a poster of "Buddy Jesus" from the film Dogma.  read more »

TEACHERS have demanded that the [UK] Government drops plans for a new generation of State-funded faith schools.

 Should the government fund religious schools?

Barack Obama's controversial pastor and the church he's served for 36 years may be in hot water over statements he has made from the pulpit in support of the Illinois senator's run for the White House  read more »

Rabbi Marc Schneier, who counts New York Gov.  read more »

So while liberal churches helped change the state, the state now has a far more liberal view of same-sex marriage.  read more »

Chinese plainclothes security officials dragged away three American Christian activists on Thursday after they attempted to protest for religious freedom for a second day in Beijing's main Tiananmen S  read more »

PARKERBURG, Iowa - Members of the Parkersburg United Methodist Church say the bent cross will remain as a symbol of the town's strength. They say it shows Parkersburg may bend, but it won't break.

The Berkley, Michigan (a Detroit suburb) city council has, up to this point, had a creche on display at Christmastime. Pressure from the ACLU puts this tradition's future in doubt.

This marks the f  read more »

The Christian Freedom Fund has returned most of the $150,000 it collected to fight the lawsuit over a painting of Jesus that hung at Bridgeport High School.

They're still l  read more »

The Gideons are no longer allowed to put Bibles in hospital patient rooms in Melbourne.

A verse from Proverbs is hanging in the University of Kentucky's locker room--and nobody cares!

When Joe Biden underwent brain surgery for a life-threatening aneurysm in 1988, he asked doctors whether he could tuck his rosary beads under his pillow.  read more »

Two new indictments against members of a polygamist sect have added bigamy charges against men already accused of sexual assault of a child.  read more »

A politically powerful San Antonio megachurch is pushing Texas lawmakers to let its small Christian school join the state public schools' athletic league.

Private vs. publi  read more »

The Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said the full body of U.S.  read more »

Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain stoked a simmering debate over religious tolerance and cultural assimilation on Friday, saying it was the duty of all immigrants to integrate into British society.

He says being British is all about tolerance.  read more »

The government has "every sympathy" for the case for abolishing blasphemy laws, Justice Minister Maria Eagle has said.

Bolivia is not against religious education in schools, but they want to make sure not to discriminate against any one religion.

Christian conservatives have the Alliance Defense Fund to counteract ACLU and other liberal organizations, but debate rages as to the group's true intent.

Samantha Devine, 13, was told to remove her cross chain necklace. Why? "It breached health safety rules," according to her father. School rules.

How is a cross necklace in the UK unsafe?  read more »

The high school basically set up a hostage drill scenario where a student was suspended for praying in school and her angry father and another man came into the school strapped with guns.  read more »

In a newly disclosed legal memorandum, the Bush administration says it can bypass laws that forbid giving taxpayer money to religious groups that hire only staff members who share their faith.

Bush has been giving money to faith based organizations which do social ministry--and a little preaching on the side. (Since this is the _Boston Globe_ you know that's a bad thing!)

His name was never mentioned, but Jesus was talked about and sung about at last night's lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington.

Well, it is Christmas, after all, but a very Christ-centered ceremony is no surprise.  read more »

President Bush is promoting a federal amendment to define marriage as 1 man/1 woman. I heard him talk about it on his Saturday radio address. Opponents say it's a church & state issue.

President George W. Bush on Tuesday welcomed steps by Vietnam toward permitting greater religious freedom after meeting with the communist government's prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung.

Bush is not talking about his faith anymore.  read more »

After a groundbreaking meeting between Roman Catholic and Muslim religious leaders last week, world political leaders this week are meeting to heighten the visibility and broaden the commitment to int  read more »

India is trying to prevent people from converting from one religion to another, or at least require a waiting period.

A new commercial against proposition 8 in California is expected to fuel the fire of an already heated debate over gay marriage.

This article lists several moral measures around the country and their results.