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In his post-game interview after defeating the Seattle Seahawks during Sunday Night Football 27-17, Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers took quite a shot at Seahawks star quarterback Russell Wilson, telling reporters, “And then getting help from God. I

Patriarch Louis Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, is the latest Christian leader to ask Christians in the Middle East not to abandon their homelands despite threats from radical Islamic groups. He also slammed the countries who give preferential treatment to Christian refugees.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A controversial ArtPrize2015 entry created using the burned remains of three holy texts may be out of the seventh annual event.

According to a new CNN poll, almost one third of Americans now believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim.

Former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) delivered a fiery religious speech tying his beliefs to the anti-Washington message of his presidential campaign, and seeking to tap into some of the anger and unrest among Republican primary voters. He joined a crowd of over 10,000 in Columbia, South Carolina, this weekend for a religious liberty rally on the steps of the state capitol.

The ad, running in Iowa this month and titled “Values,” will air on the Fox News Channel in the Des Moines area, according to a statement provided by the Cruz campaign to Breitbart News.

The most recent example is the inclusion of “humanism” as a religion in federal prisons, with the corresponding rights to time and space for activities, visits by humanist chaplains and access to literature and study materials. Often used as a code word for atheism, humanism, or “secular humanism,” refers to a unifying philosophy of life that seeks meaning in human events without reference to spiritual or non-material realities.

In a recent article in the Psychiatric Times, Rob Whitley, Ph.D. and Eric Jarvis, M.D. aim to teach some of their less than religious colleagues how to utilize the faith of their patients as a means for recovery. The authors observe, “Religiosity has consistently been identified as a factor that can promote healing and facilitate recovery amongst those with various physical and mental illnesses.”

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that a monument to the Ten Commandments must be removed from the state’s Capitol in Oklahoma City.

“We can all become Benedictine monks,” or “we can clear our throats, we can lean forward, we can have a conversation with our neighbors and we can try to do something practical to protect ourselves and to lead our country forward” Concerned Women for America CEO and President Penny Nance told the Breitbart News Sunday listening audience and host Matthew Boyle in response to last week’s decision from the U.S. Supreme Court to force homosexual marriage in all 50 states.

In a provocative piece in Time magazine, columnist Mark Oppenheimer has proposed following up Friday’s landmark Supreme Court decision imposing same-sex marriage on the nation with the abolition of tax exempt status for religious institutions.

An evangelical Christian pastor has said he would rather go to prison than withdraw a comment calling Islam “satanic”. Pastor James McConnell of the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is facing prosecution under the Communications Act 2003 for

From Gallup: WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the 2016 presidential election field takes shape, more than nine in 10 Americans say they would vote for a qualified presidential candidate who is Catholic, a woman, black, Hispanic or Jewish. Less than half

Real Time host Bill Maher took aim at “conservatives who constantly whine” that Christianity is under attack in America during a segment on his HBO show Friday night.

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United Kingdom, and the Church of England is in steep decline, according to the latest information released by the British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey. The newest BSA report shows that while 40

The island of Cuba has been rightly seen as the last major stronghold of real Marxism in the world, but as Communism loses its grip, the long atheistic winter seems to be giving way to a springtime of spirituality. When Cuban

Statistics from the most recent Gallup poll indicate that Americans’ moral views have become increasingly liberal over the past 14 years, with U.S. citizens tending to approve of behavior they would have deemed immoral or sinful just a generation ago.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is worried that freedom of speech and freedom of religion both are endangered by a growing leftist bigotry that is rising in the country. Religion in particular is facing a “real and present danger” of being labeled “hate speech,” he said.

Flying in the face of the common belief that irreligiosity tends to rise with education and income, the exact opposite trend emerges from the Pew Center’s most recent comprehensive report on religion in America.

On Tuesday, Pew Research released a new study finding a radical increase in the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans. That increase correlated strongly with the decrease in the number of Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical Protestants over the past seven years.

Known for being one of the more religious countries in the world, especially in comparison with old world Europe, the United States has experienced an alarming dip in religiosity in the past seven years, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.

Austrians consider themselves to be more tolerant of almost all sexual deviances from the norm. That’s not all. They readily accepted sexual equality and other races but did not extend their open mindedness to Islam, and even their fellow Austrians, who

It is an untold story in many ways, all 30 NBA teams have volunteer chaplains who hold prayer circles with players who wish to observe their religious beliefs before every pro basketball game.

Tennessee’s attorney general says a bill seeking to make the Bible the state’s official book would violate separation of church and state provisions in the federal and state constitutions.

Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs, known as the Diyanet, issued a fatwa that allows Muslims to use toilet paper. However, the department reminded people “that water should be the primary source of cleansing.”

It is really funny to hear prolific emailer and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounce Indiana’s religious freedom law, a law that is eerily similar to the one her cigar aficionado husband, President Bill Clinton, fully supported and signed into law back in 1993.

A religious group in Malaysia has issued an official complaint against a young girl whose photo holding a dog at an adoption drive is now making the rounds on social media.

In an effort to bring CNN back from the brink of failing ratings, the cable network has announced the debut of several new shows, including one hosted by religious writer Reza Aslan and another by comedian W. Kamau Bell.

Rep. Diane Black introduces a measure strongly condemning the violence against religious minorities in the Middle East and reaffirming America’s commitment to promoting religious liberty and tolerance around the world.

Police in India are investigating a religious guru who is accused of convincing 400 of his male followers to get surgically castrated.

During the most political Academy Awards ceremony in years, an event filled with partial nudity, political statements, and a lot of farcical back patting, Hollywood’s elite once again gathered to secularly wrap up another year in film.

(Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was appalled that some of his fans had built a temple to deify him, adding that such an act contradicted tradition.

Perhaps there’s a religious aspect to the Chapel Hill killings after all, if New Atheism is, in fact, a religion.

Last week, President Obama told Americans not to get on their “high horse” and think that the murderous atrocities being committed by Muslims in Africa, Syria, Iraq, and the Middle East are “unique.” “Remember that during the Crusades and the

Put simply, not everything about human nature is reducible to society’s modes of production. A person is a moral, political and religious entity. And it is his natural complexity that we seek to conserve.

Collin County District Court Judge Jill Willis ruled that the members of a small Orthodox Jewish community, the Far North Dallas Congregation of Toras Chaim, have the right to continue meeting in a Plano home for private worship. She made the decision on Wednesday, February 4, 2014.