Less remarked upon—though just as historic—is another precedent he quietly overturned: Francis was also the first pope in modern history to come from any religious order. For 167 years before ...

Spiritual and religious practices vary around the world. Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread across many societies. Other practices, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, are ...

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court in a trio of rulings expected in the coming weeks appears inclined to extend its trend of taking an expansive view of religious rights while ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether the Catholic Church in Oklahoma can run the nation’s first religious charter school, a potentially major expansion of the use ...

Drummond – and its companion case, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond – asks whether religious groups have a right not just to start public charter schools with public tax ...

Leading figures from the two colliding worlds of AI and religious liberty discuss the rapid development of AI and its impacts on religious liberty today On May 20-21, 2025, leading figures from ...

“I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Pope Leo XIV ... now Pope Leo XIV, assumes religious leadership of Catholics spanning continents, cultures, and political systems.

By these benchmarks, the world’s most religious countries are mostly in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. For example, about nine-in-ten adults in Kenya ...

Perhaps Elie also feels some dissatisfaction with his initial definition, for in the very next sentence, he defines “crypto-religious” again, just a bit more expansively: “It’s work that ...

White House Faith Office. A Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. A Religious Liberty Commission. President Donald Trump has won plaudits from his base of conservative Christian supporters ...