Bibles return to US Navy base guest rooms
August 21, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Gideon Bibles are going back in the Navy’s nightstand drawers. In June, the United States Navy ordered housekeepers at thousands of Navy-owned
More Generation X college grads staying in church, study finds
August 14, 2014
You do not need a doctoral degree to think higher education leads people away from organized religion. That has been common wisdom for decades. Now
Boko Haram attack again in Nigeria
August 14, 2014
After weeks of sacking villages and destroying church buildings around Nigeria’s northeastern town of Gwoza, Islamic extremist group Boko Haram killed an estimated 100 people
Turkmenistan added to ‘worst offenders’ list
August 14, 2014
And then there were nine. Secretary of State John Kerry announced July 28 that Turkmenistan has joined the State Department’s list of worst religious freedom
Obama extends LGBT rights for federal contractors
August 7, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama used his authority to extend workplace protections among federal contractors to homosexual, bisexual and transgender status — prompting concerns the action
Non-Hindu religious activity banned in India
August 7, 2014
CHHATTISGARH, India — Church leaders in India have asked national and Chhattisgarh state officials to reverse a ban on non-Hindu religious activity that more than
Kyrgyzstan bans Orthodox bishop from religious work
August 7, 2014
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan’s State Commission for Religious Affairs (SCRA) refused to allow Bishop Feodosy, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kyrgyzstan, to
Large fines, jailing for Baptists in Uzbekistan
August 7, 2014
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Igor Kulyada, a Baptist from Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent, was jailed July 3–6. He was charged for putting up public leaflets with verses
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