Javed Love is understood to be the first teacher in Northern Ireland in at least a decade to take the action.

The vast majority of Americans were raised in a religion. Fully 86% say that as children, they identified with Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam or another religion. Just 13% of U.S. adults ...

Austin, Texas — Texas public schools could use teachings from the Bible in lessons as an option for students from kindergarten through fifth grade under a proposal that drew hours of testimony Monday ...

Throughout the 19th century, Islam appeared regularly in the curricula of American Protestant seminaries. Islam was not only the focus of Christian missions but was studied as part of the history of ...

Religious freedom in America is under attack as never before. With more and more clashes ending up in court, let’s consider the principles that support the operation of religion and the exercise of ...

The Second Vatican Council’s teaching on the universal call to holiness, in Chapter 5 of Lumen Gentium, was a landmark in the Church’s awareness of the vocation possessed by all the baptized. However, ...

What we mustn't do--or at least shouldn't do--is use the power of government to advance specific religious doctrines or views. Those vary, and the freedom of them, and from them, is foundational in ...

Poland's Catholic primate has accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government of pandering to anti-church feeling, after it unveiled new plans to downgrade religious teaching in the traditionally ...

The head of Australia's peak Jewish body has urged Labor to "get rid of" a defence to its new offence of inciting racial hatred that would exempt those quoting directly from religious texts during ...

Poland's Catholic bishops have urged schools to continue offering religious teaching after government attempts to restrict it were blocked by the Constitutional Tribunal following church appeals.