Like a lot of people these days, I'm a recovering secularist. Until September 11 I accepted the notion that as the world becomes richer and better educated, it becomes less religious. Extrapolating ...

COMMENTARY: ‘I am not a hater’ in today’s society is the equivalent of ‘I am not a witch’ from days of yore. As the U.S. bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom” approaches the Fourth of July, there’s plenty ...

Last month, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling that the U.S. government cannot fine the Little Sisters of the Poor for refusing to comply with the now-infamous HHS mandate. The court also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rally against government's latest religion-related policies on the education system, in Istanbul ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's ...

In the last few years, the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ has been celebrated as “winter holidays” with “holiday trees” and “season’s greetings.” December has become the month of the “Christmas wars”: ...

Commentator Bill O’Reilly of Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” reported in March 2004 that over 78 percent of Americans believed moral values were on the decline, and described the moral ...

The debate over religious liberty has brought out some odd readings of American history. A number of forces are fueling the current debate about religious liberty in the United States: among them, ...

Why are women so dramatically under-represented in the growing atheist/secularist movement? That’s a question tackled by Susan Jacoby in this month’s edition of The Humanist in an article that ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has emerged as the Supreme Court’s most outspoken secularist. She subscribes fervently to the left’s myths about a religiously neutral Constitution. In a recent dissent, she ...

Turkish lawyers and the country's main opposition party slated a probe into lieutenants who chanted a secularist slogan at their graduation ceremony, calling it an attack on freedom of expression and ...

ISTANBUL, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Turkey's steps to promote traditional moral values in students, increase Islamic lessons and open prayer rooms in schools are fuelling secularist concerns in the Muslim ...