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Christianity
The spotlight never dims on Texas. Earlier this year a school district banned an Anne Frank adaptation, and now under a new state law, public schools…
WRN Editorial Staff
Sep 14, 2022
Religion News
What do we mean by the term faith? We usually mean faith as belief or religion, but we have faith in each other, faith in a…
Opinion
What is it about spirituality that makes people look younger? Ten years ago, I stepped out of an elevator at the Scientology church where I was…
Religion News
Church for Sale, Coronavirus, Kirk Douglas, LGBT Services, Lent, Latter-day Saints and Gender, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Chinese Churches Christ Church Cathedral Begins LGBT+ Services Christ Church…
WRN Editorial Staff
Feb 24, 2020
Christianity
Confessional Seal Breach, Sikhs Census, Vaccination Exemptions, Methodist Agree to Split, 50 Countries Suppressive to Christians, India’s CAA Turmoil, China Increases Social Control Sikhs to be…
WRN Editorial Staff
Jan 21, 2020
Baptist
The top 10 religious stories of 2019 – as selected by members of the Religion News Association – included: The burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, the…
Issues
Myanmar Leader Rejects Genocide Charge A 2017 crackdown in Myanmar against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority allegedly included mass killings, rapes and arson and resulted in…
WRN Editorial Staff
Dec 16, 2019
Politics
The “Fairness for All Act,” proposed by Utah Congressman Chris Stewart is an attempt to craft a compromise between LGBTQ civil rights and religious liberty, which…
Atheism
Wisconsin Students Shelter in Mosque During School Attack About 100 high school students sheltered in a mosque across the street from their Oshkosh West High School…
WRN Editorial Staff
Dec 9, 2019
Opinion
Some people have taken religious liberty for granted. After all, it’s protected in the First Amendment, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and legislation such as…
Politics
Chinese Catholics Occupy Church to Prevent Demolition Priests and parishioners have locked themselves inside a Catholic Church in the Hebei province of China to prevent the…
WRN Editorial Staff
Nov 4, 2019
Issues
Hindu Festival of Lights Celebrated in White House Ceremony President Trump hosted a celebration of the Hindu Festival of Lights or Diwali in the White House,…
WRN Editorial Staff
Oct 28, 2019