Thousands of Hindus head to southern Nepal for festival honouring goddess of power Thousands of Hindus have gathered in southern Nepal before a festival believed to be the world’s largest ritual animal slaughter, despite court orders and calls by animal activists to end the event. The sacrifices, set to begin on Tuesday, …
The country’s ultra-orthodox power brokers are losing influence as more moderate forces push back. On Saturday, only days after the collapse of government coalition talks, tens of thousands of ordinary citizens boarded buses for what will go down in Israeli history as the first freedom rides. For generations, public transport …
William P. Barr just gave the worst speech by an Attorney General of the United States in modern history. Speaking at the University of Notre Dame last Friday, Barr took “religious liberty” as his subject, and he portrayed his fellow-believers as a beleaguered and oppressed minority. He was addressing, he said, “the …
Conservative justices appear eager to take on a subject at the heart of the country’s culture wars. The Supreme Court’s decision in last term’s big religion case, on the constitutionality of a Latin cross that stands 40 feet tall on public land in Bladensburg, Md., left both sides in the religion …
Pope Francis has accused his critics of stabbing him in the back, and said he is “not afraid” of the Catholic Church splitting. Speaking after a trip to Africa, the Pope took issue with conservative clergymen who have criticised him. Those men do not “want good for the Church”, but …
The KAET group is a dance ensemble for religious men – the unique crossover where physical expression meets devotion to the Torah. Source: The dancing Rabbi crossing boundaries – BBC Reel
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Tamas Irsai was a teenager when he last sang in the choir in Budapest’s Rumbach synagogue during World War Two, before most Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps. A general view shows the renovated Rumbach street synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, August 15, 2019. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo Irsai …
A twitter-spat over Donald Trump’s immigration policy reveals a deep cleavage in America’s religious right JULY 4TH of all days should be a time of amity for Americans. So many generations have joined in celebrating “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as basic human entitlements, whatever the myriad interpretations …
Trump’s combination of hate-mongering and loud identification with Christianity is the antithesis of the American tradition of religious pluralism. A central pillar of Donald Trump’s compact with conservative Christians, which has been immensely useful for him and is critical to his reelection prospects, is his much-professed concern for “religious liberty.” …
For decades, the Supreme Court has entangled itself in establishment clause decisions that have been, in the words of Alice in Wonderland, curiouser and curiouser. On Wednesday, it can leaven with clarity the confusion it has sown. The First Amendment’s first words say, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” …
Thousands of priests are closeted, and the Vatican’s failure to reckon with their sexuality has created a crisis for Catholicism. e have no reliable figures on just how many priests in the Catholic Church are gay. The Vatican has conducted many studies on its own clergy but never on this subject. …
Albert Einstein’s so-called God letter first surfaced in 2008, when it fetched four hundred and four thousand dollars in a sale at a British auction house. The letter came back into the news earlier this month, when its owner or owners auctioned it off again, this time at Christie’s in New …
