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Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty ImagesIn a major development, the Vatican said priests may bless same-sex couples in informal settings, such as a meeting or visit to a shrine, so long as the blessing does not appear to endorse a marriage. -
Brian Turner/via FlickrA Malheur County woman is appealing a federal judge’s ruling against her lawsuit that challenges state adoption policies for transgender children on the basis of religious freedom.
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Religious opponents of abortion, led by the Catholic Church, are mobilizing against Proposition 1 on the Nov. 8 ballot. But the numbers in fundraising and in the polls are against them. -
A new study shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.
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Nearly 150 years ago, the Wallowa Band of the Nez Perce people were exiled. For three decades, they’ve held the Tamkaliks Celebration to commemorate their return. After missing two years due to COVID-19, the gathering has resumed.
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The author, who was brutally attacked in New York, has been the subject of death threats since his book The Satanic Verses was published in 1988.
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When Randy Schiefer was hospitalized with COVID-19, he wasn't sure he would survive. Now, he looks back at that experience as the most important thing that has ever happened to him.
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An Oregon Court of Appeals ruling earlier this year found the state's initial award of $135,000 in damages against Sweet Cakes By Melissa showed signs of bias.
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Ernest Robison's son, Matthew, never walked or jumped. But after the boy's death, Robison said, "I got the idea that he would just be able to rise physically from his wheelchair and go up to heaven."
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Oregon's strict law regulating health care mergers may keep religiously affiliated health systems that do not provide abortion care from expanding.
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Female rabbis have become a way of life these days, but Sally Priesand changed the course of women and Judaism when she became the first female rabbi in the United States in June 1972.
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The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.
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California’s Catholic bishops want the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a state sex abuse law, setting up another conflict with the high court.
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Katherine Stewart about her book The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
