By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Mo. May 4 (Reuters) - A Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5 mi...
The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.01.2012
Normally no one pays much attention to the advertisements that movie theaters run before the previews start up. But at one Texas movie theater, they'v...
Posted 04.19.2012
IHOP is in some hot syrup over allegations that some Muslims employees were told to "lay low" every September 11. Four former IHOP employees are c...
Imran Ahmad | Posted 04.10.2012
From an early age -- despite being a boring Muslim from embarrassing Pakistan -- I had decided that I was going to belong, rather than wallow in self-segregation and resentment like many from my 'home' country.
Robert V. Taylor | Posted 05.20.2012
The debate over whether religiously affiliated institutions have to provide access to contraception is presented by some as a defense of religious liberty. The liberty being defended is revealed to be no liberty at all.
The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.20.2012
College students are used to proposals to cut funding for public universities. It's a little less common, however, to have the state legislature debat...
AP | Posted 03.15.2012
DUNKERTON, Iowa -- The principal of an Iowa secondary school that allowed members of a Christian rock band to espouse their anti-gay, anti-abortion vi...
Wendy N. Powell | Posted 05.13.2012
Now, I have a robust sense of humor but I can't imagine Hollywood making fun of another religion or culture referring to their women as "bitches."
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.14.2012
Students and staff at a high school in Dunkerton, Ia., were shocked when an assembly intended to address drug and bullying issues instead featured ant...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.09.2012
The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology faces a federal lawsuit after reportedly threatening to drop a 17-year-old student from th...
Jason Salzman | Posted 04.17.2012
If you're a talk-radio host and you feed on infotainment, you pretty much have to cover the topics people will talk about because you want people to... talk. But that doesn't mean you have to embrace bigots.
Daniela Ramirez | Posted 04.08.2012
I went to Boston College, a highly regarded university with a strong tradition as a Jesuit institution. I was pleased with my undergraduate education, but I still lament that my alma mater denies students access to contraceptive services through its health system.
AP | By JEFF KAROUB | Posted 01.20.2012
DETROIT -- Aleeza Adelman teaches Jewish studies at a Jewish school, yet she considers herself a teacher whose subject is religion, not a religious te...
Erica Keppler | Posted 02.07.2012
This sales clerk is demanding her right to practice religious discrimination, and she is saying it is religious discrimination against her to prevent her from doing it. How utterly oxymoronic. Kudos to Macy's for doing the right thing and firing her.
Posted 11.26.2011
By Marcia Pledger Religion News Service CLEVELAND (RNS) Northeast Ohio native Suhad Hasan says neither her Muslim faith nor her headscarf should b...
Posted 12.31.2011
For Crockett Keller, the customer is always right -- or at least right-leaning. That's because the Texas firearm safety instructor refuses to teach...
Posted 12.04.2011
By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a case involving three employees who were fired by th...
Posted 11.29.2011
By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Oct. 5.) will hear one of most important religion cases in...
Grace Nasri | Posted 11.02.2011
Many may not realize this, but the majority of Muslims are victims of these fringe believers who have all but hijacked Islam, drowned out the religion's message of peace.
Waukee, IA Patch | Jody Gifford Email the Author | Posted 10.25.2011
A Waukee church is being criticized by angry parents for forcing child-care staffers to adhere to Christian principles, banning non-Christians, sexual...
Posted 10.24.2011
A senior executive for Delta Air Lines has issued a written commitment that the company will not in any circumstance seek to know the religious affili...
Moriel Rothman | Posted 08.03.2011
When the discussion of sharia law is based on the premise that Islam is inherently criminal, or that all Muslims have a proclivity towards violence, then that discussion shifts from legitimate intellectual debate to hateful religious scapegoating.
Todd Green, Ph.D. | Posted 09.24.2011
For all of the Christians who have expressed outrage in recent days, you need not worry. You're safe. No, the guilt-by-association principle does not apply when unspeakable violence is carried out in the name of Christianity.
Joseph K. Grieboski | Posted 07.21.2011
The Hungarian parliament procured for the country the title of Worst Religion Law in Europe when it rushed after midnight to adopt the "Law on the Right to Freedom of Conscience and Religion."
Frank Fredericks | Posted 09.13.2011
While doing my daily routine of scanning religious freedom articles, I came across a rather striking headline: "'Pastafarian' Wins Religious Freedom Right to Wear Pasta Strainer for Driving Licence."
Reuters | Posted 05.05.2012