Rashida Tlaib, Democrat and former Michigan state Representative, has won the nomination to run for Congress and become the first Muslim woman there.
Argentina's Senate has rejected a bill to decriminalize elective abortion with 31 votes for and 38 votes against the measure.
The Pew Research Center asked America’s “nones” why they don’t identify with any religious teaching or belong to any organized religion.
A 28-year-old woman is the first person to be fined under a new law in Denmark which bans wearing face veils in public places.
The United States shouldn’t promote any particular religion’s agenda but yet that’s exactly what the Trump administration’s taxpayer-funded “Religious Freedom Task Force” is doing. Attorney general Jeff Sessions announced creation of a "religious liberty task force" whose duty will be to "help the department (of justice) fully implement our religious guidance."
The Catholic Church is changing its teaching to oppose the death penalty in all cases as “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.”
A woman from Saudi Arabia faces two years in prison for hugging Iraqi singer and composer on stage during his performance.
Jeff Sessions announces new US Department of Justice’s creation of a “religious liberty task force” to help implement the new religious guidance.
An increasing number Catholic women are taking lifelong chastity vows in order to become “consecrated virgins”, according to the Vatican.
An incident last week at Kennedy Airport prompted one of the largest technology organizations in Israel to say it would boycott the national airline.