The Texas Senate has passed a pair of bills to introduce religion in public schools. One would require the Ten Commandments ...

Religious types insist that contradictions in sacred scriptures are not cardinal flaws. They blame it on artistic ...

The Texas Senate on Tuesday advanced bills that would require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments and ...

Classrooms would be required to post displays of the Ten Commandments, while school trustees could require opt-in prayer time ...

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People gathered for communal prayers in the shattered concrete husk of Gaza City’s Imam Shafi’i Mosque ...

“The reward of prayer here is like 500 prayers — despite the difficulty of the road to get here. It brings a great reward from God,” said Ezat Abu Laqia, also from Aqraba. The faithful ...

"I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers for my health from the Square, I accompany you from here. May God bless you and the Virgin protect you. Thank you," the pope said in a ...

We are a state and nation built on 'In God We Trust,’” Middleton said in a news release following Tuesday’s vote on the school prayer bill. “Litigious atheists are no longer going to get ...

She added, “He is in God’s arms now and I am okay with that. I will always love you,” she closed, quoting her own most famous song title. Dean has been a subject of fan fascination since the ...

Cardinal Stephen Chow, the Jesuit bishop of Hong Kong, was moved to tears as he and Bishop Joseph Shen Bin of Shanghai led prayers for Pope ... stops at a mosque, a Buddhist temple, and a Taoist ...