NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques
Americans living in New Jersey were subjected to surveillance as part of the NYPD's effort to build databases of...
One of the great holy men in Jewish history was The Baal Shem Tov.
The number of labyrinths in the United States has been steadily increasing for about 15 years.
Ohio church offers drive-thru for Ash Wednesday
An Ohio church is offering a drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessing for parishioners pressed for time or reluctant to come inside the church for the Lenten observance. Read more »
Judge says Wash. can't make pharmacies sell Plan B
Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the state's true goal was to suppress religious objections by... Read more »
Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive'
The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on... Read more »
Newark mayor: NYPD misled us on Muslim spying
The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they... Read more »
Schools work to balance gay, religious rights
Dozens of colleges have scrutinized how on-campus Christian groups operate after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed a law school to deny funding to a Christian group that would not admit gays. Read more »
Judge says Wash. can't make pharmacies sell contraceptives
Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the state's true goal was to suppress religious objections by... Read more »
As China clamps down, Tibet struggle grows radical
Police don't travel far to monitor the goings-on at the Gami Temple at the edge of the Tibetan plateau. The police station sits inside the monastery, just outside the gates to the main prayer hall. Read more »
West Bank settlement housing gets initial approval
Israel gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank, a move that drew rebukes from the United Nations and Palestinians and... Read more »
Photos: Catholics celebrate beginning of Lent with Ash Wednesday Mass
Catholics marked the beginning of Lent with Ash Wednesday Mass Read more »
Bill would require all Utah schools K-12 to recite pledge daily
Every morning in every Utah public school class, students may be required by law to stand, put their hands over their hearts and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, under legislation that advanced... Read more »
Purim: A good story and a great feast
Purim has been summed up in this way: They tried to kill us, we won, so let's eat! Read more »
New Harmony: Circle of truth includes some startling ideas
Last week I stumbled across something wonderfully eye-opening. But you'll need to hang with me for a moment while I set the stage. Read more »
Tel Aviv angers religious by seeking Sabbath buses
In the latest salvo in Israel's simmering cultural war between religious and secular Jews, municipal authorities in the bustling metropolis of Tel Aviv have outraged the country's religious establishment with a decision to launch bus... Read more »
UN nuclear agency reports failed Iran talks
The U.N. nuclear agency acknowledged renewed failure Wednesday after a trip to probe suspicions of covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, in a statement issued just hours after an Iranian general... Read more »
Festival banned 20 years returns to Myanmar pagoda
Amid the towering golden spires of Myanmar's grandest Buddhist shrine there was talk of politics and hope for the future as thousands came Wednesday for the return of an annual festival that was... Read more »
Israeli religious party denies coalition crisis
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's top religious partner said Wednesday that Israel's ruling coalition would not be shaken by the Supreme Court's annulment of a contentious law allowing... Read more »
Southern Baptist leaders OK 'Great Commission'
Some Southern Baptists worry that their denomination's name still carries the stigma of a 19th century split with northern Baptists over slavery. Others who fought hard to build the brand and its conservative theology and politics... Read more »
Festival returns to Myanmar's Shwedagon Pagoda
Thousands of people gathered at Myanmar's most sacred Buddhist shrine on Wednesday to celebrate an annual festival banned for more than 20 years under the former military government. Read more »
NYPD monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage
The mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Tuesday over an effort by the city's police department to monitor Muslim student groups for any signs that their members harbored... Read more »
Santorum blasts Obama's motives on power, abortion
A surging Rick Santorum is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Barack Obama, questioning not just the president's competence but his motives and even his Christian values. Read more »
Romney says Obama has 'fought against religion'
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's administration has "fought against religion" and sought to substitute a "secular" agenda for one grounded in faith. Read more »
Pa. Christian college sues over birth control regs
A Christian college in western Pennsylvania sued the federal government Tuesday, saying regulations that require employers to offer birth control coverage that includes drugs that abort fertilized embryos are "directly at odds" with... Read more »
Utah lawmakers honor Utah-Israeli ties
The Utah Senate, in a resolution passed unanimously Tuesday, recognized Utah's cultural, economic, military and security bonds to Israel. Read more »
Southern Baptist leaders OK 'Great Commission'
Leaders of the nation's largest Protestant denomination have endorsed an optional alternative name for the Southern Baptist Convention: Great Commission Baptists. Read more »
Monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage
Yale University is condemning the monitoring of Muslim college students across the Northeast by the New York Police Department, calling it "antithetical to the values of Yale, the academic... Read more »
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