Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs in India, said last month that the influence of religion on human beings is much more powerful than the use of armed forces.
Canada recently offered refuge to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced with rigorous imprisonment and public flogging for promoting liberal ideas.
Clerics in Islamic State recently banned pigeon breeding on the roofs of houses, alleging the overhead view of revealing genitals is dishonorable.
Last month the Minister for Religious Endowments in Egypt called for an international law that would criminalize contempt of religion.
First Church of Cannabis in Indiana, a new religion that claims using marijuana is a sacrament, was recently granted a tax-exempt status by the IRS.
Last month, Ireland voted by a huge majority to legalize same-sex marriage; the first country in the world to have achieved the same via popular vote.
A woman from New Jersey filed a court case against the state, after being refused a vanity plate that read “8THEIST”, but “BAPTIST” was allowed.
Christian Republicans, believing the U.S. is a nation founded by Christians alone, intend to establish Christianity as America’s official religion.
The Air Force snubs a civil liberties group who sought to court-martial a two-star general for delivering religious speech in uniform to credit God.
Ben Carson, the Republican presidential candidate, started his bid for the White House by proposing a tax plan that is based on Biblical tithing.
