For a country of 10 million people in lockdown, Easter went incredibly ‘well in Portugal’: there were only 117 arrests for the crime brought in by the State of Emergency of ‘disobedience’. Over 300 establishments that should not have been open were closed, while a village full of Easter worshippers got away with turning out in sizable numbers to kiss a wooden cross “with no protection”.

Support for LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections edged up slightly from 2015 to 2019, but during that same time, support for “religious refusal” laws that allow businesses to deny service to gay men and lesbians increased, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, or PRRI. Seventy-two percent of the more than 40,000 Americans surveyed said they favored nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in 2019, a five-year high...

Parenting advice on rejecting religion, humming at the table, and giving up on home education.

Religious gatherings have been blamed for spreading the virus.

A Las Vegas pastor said he is moving forward with an in-person service on Easter Sunday. Pastor Joseph Guy has been planning to open “Open Arms Community Church” for about a year and a half now, with a launch date of Easter Sunday planned for about the past six months. He said he doesn’t agree that churches should be nonessential and will still hold his first service on Easter.

When you think of religion, you probably think of a god who rewards the good and punishes the wicked. But the idea of morally concerned gods is by no means universal. Social scientists have long known that small-scale traditional societies – the kind missionaries used to dismiss as “pagan” – envisaged a spirit world that cared little about the morality of human behaviour.

When a Florida pastor, who had been arrested for holding a church service despite local coronavirus restrictions, complained he was the victim of “a tyrannical government”, Ron DeSantis, the state’s Republican governor, was listening.

Her house sits on a tidy, peaceful suburban street outside Cincinnati. For the past few weeks, she has been doing everything right: sheltering at home and working out of her makeshift office to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus.

The Islamophobic hashtags began circulating shortly after the news broke in late March. Indian authorities had linked dozens of cases of COVID-19 to a Muslim missionary group that held its annual conference in Delhi in early March, and health officials were racing to track down anyone who had contact with the participants. Coronavirus fears and religious tension were already at a fever pitch in India, and it didn’t take long for the two forces to intermingle.

Of the numerous patients being treated for coronavirus in the hot spot of Alabama’s Lee County, many of them have one thing in common: they recently attended services at churches that have refuse to participate in lockdowns. As AL.com reports, East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika has called on churches to stop holding services. According to the […]

His take on the afterlife should certainly be balm to the 58 per cent of Americans still living in fear of a literal hell.

NEW YORK (AP) — As in-person worship services are canceled or downsized amid the coronavirus outbreak, some churches across the U.S. are bracing for a painful drop in weekly contributions and...

In 2009, Hobby Lobby president Steve Green began acquiring a collection of 16 Dead Sea Scrolls for his Museum of the Bible, a sprawling institution in Washington, D.C. that seeks to provide “an immersive and personalized experience with the Bible, and its ongoing impact on the world around us.”

Many religious people don’t like atheists, and in fact would apparently rate them alongside rapists on levels of trust, suggests a new Canadian study that claims to be one of the first psychological probes into anti-atheist prejudice. Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of Oregon conducted a series of studies that found a deep level of distrust toward those who don’t believe in God...

A man who challenged coronavirus health warnings and to make a religious statement licked the grids at a shrine in Iran has been arrested.

Controversial pastor Paula White is now an official employee of the Trump's administration but has served as his unofficial advisor since 2016

Laws requiring clergy to report child abuse to authorities — even if it's heard in the confession box — will come into effect on Monday, ending the "special treatment" for Victoria's religious institutions. The seal has now been lifted for the suspected sexual abuse of children, with spiritual and religious leaders required to report the abuse or face up to three years in prison.

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Three million digital copies of Dawkins’ best-selling “bible of atheism,” The God Delusion, have been downloaded in the kingdom, “one of twelve Muslim-majority states where the statute books prescribe the death penalty for apostacy,” according to an article in the new February/March edition of Free Inquiry, a periodical of the secular Center for Inquiry organization.

Evangelical Christians preach personal responsibility, but they're unwilling to practice it.