Texas lawmakers continue to push religion into schools as proposals to display the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms mandatorily. They will also require educational establishments to grant time for prayer and Bible reading to gain more support.
Japan’s Muslim population doubled in just over a decade.
Islam remains one of the smallest minority religions in Japan, representing around 0.15% of the 126 million people living in Japan. But that may soon change as it grows rapidly in the East Asian country.
Authorities in Kenya found 15 thin and malnourished followers of a Kenyan church on the property of the organization’s pastor. Four of these 15 devotees died after the group was rescued and taken to the hospital for treatment.
A non-profit organization in Pakistan claimed that more than 400,000 people were allegedly involved in “blasphemous” activities in the Muslim-majority country, citing a report submitted to the Lahore High Court by the Cybercrime Wing of the country’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
With the Holy Week ending, many Filipinos celebrated it by spending time in churches and beaches. But a unique and gory tradition paused because the COVID-19 pandemic resumed for the first time, drawing thousands of tourists from the Philippines and abroad.
A Filipino Catholic devotee was nailed to a cross for a reenactment of Jesus Christ's crucifixion in observance of Good Friday, in the central province of Pampanga. (Reuters) pic.twitter.com/cD0IO3igMd
A public university in San Francisco, California, sparked criticism for allegedly planning to investigate an associate professor of history after showing an image of the Prophet Muhammad while teaching Islamic history.
A new, shocking study published in the British Journal of Psychology discovered that jurors holding religious beliefs are more likely to be biased against defendants who prefer to take an affirmation instead of swear an oath to a God, revealing a longstanding moral suspicion against non-religious people in many parts of the world.
Georgia made history as the first state in the US to take a legislative measure condemning Hinduphobia when the state’s General Assembly filed a resolution denouncing it.
The US state of Georgia passed a resolution condemning 'Hinduphobia,' becoming the first state in the country to do so.https://t.co/xanw8vgzO0
A riot between Hindu devotees and a mob occurred in the suburb of Malad West in the megacity of Mumbai, India, during the Ram Navami festivities, where a few men suffered injuries.
An armed mob of about 1,000 people stormed and ravaged a madrasa (Islamic religious school) in India, setting the institution’s 110-year-old library on fire and causing widespread damage, including a collection of over 4,500 books.
