The District of Columbia Council voted 11–2 — despite vocal protests from a coalition of conservative evangelicals and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington —
About one-third of the countries in the world have high restrictions on religion, exposing almost 70 percent of the globe’s population to limitations on their
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A former pastor once touted by Southern Baptist leaders as America’s next great black preacher has admitted to fathering the child of
Coptic Christian women in Egypt are being forced to marry and convert to Islam and that oppression is part of a larger pattern of persecution
CANTERBURY, England — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and well-known Baptist pastor Rick Warren have condemned the “shocking severity” of proposed anti-gay legislation pending in
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Chilling allegations emerged in November of a detailed plot by Turkish naval officers to perpetrate threats and violence against the nation’s non-Muslims
OREGON CITY, Ore. — Parents charged with criminally negligent homicide in the faith-healing death of their teenage son will ask a judge to dismiss the
WASHINGTON — President Obama signed legislation Dec. 17 allowing for local government funding of abortion in the District of Columbia. The U.S. Senate passed the
