A rare legal effort to secure rights for atheists and nonbelievers was quashed last month by Indonesia's Constitutional Court, which ruled that a citizen must profess a faith, even a minority one, on ...

Non-believers say they are being discriminated.A rare legal effort to secure rights for atheists and non-believers was quashed last month by Indonesia's Constitutional Court, which ruled that a ...

In the 1960s, clerics led powerful movements to protest human rights violations and war. It was their religious devotion that ...

Participants in what organizers called the largest ever religious freedom gathering voiced hope that the new U.S.

Laleen Jayamanne and Namika Raby (Part I of this article appeared in The Island on Friday (31 Jan.) Women’s Mental Health: ...

Former President Jimmy Carter has won a posthumous Grammy award. Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake ...

While a strong sense of community serves as Little Saigon’s beating heart, religion solidifies the bonds between many individuals in the community. Monks can be seen welcoming the public to enter the ...

Lunar New Year festivals and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and the world.

From Beijing to Havana, the holiday — known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea — is a major ...

Vietnamese people cook traditional dishes and place them on a home altar as a mark ... Warm bowls of snake soup are also on ...

Form Content  In this interview for JURIST,  Lana Osei JURIST's Chief West Africa Correspondent based in Ghana, and Halima Abena Kyerewah Adam from ...

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — Treading a familiar path for women in rural Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Hiep found a factory job in dynamic Ho Chi Minh City and spent 16 years helping make shoes for Western ...