No contemporary political issue is more emotionally fraught: The LGBT lobby, enjoying its new political ascendancy, worries that religious conservatives wish to diminish the self-definition and harm ...

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote in an 1802 letter, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an ...

With Christmas and Hannukah in the past, we enter a new year of religious holidays. It is time for all of humanity — religious and secular — to give more thanks for organized religion. In the coming ...

The respect religions have for the dignity and value of human life should help them convince their followers that "war must be rejected and peace cherished," leaders of the Dicastery for ...

Jordan's King Abdullah II said Wednesday he supported efforts to secure a UN resolution against attacks on Islam, its prophets and other religions amid global Muslim anger over cartoons of the Prophet ...

I have a major problem with Theda L. Williamson's July 9 letter. First of all, referring to pagan beliefs as a religion in quotes is very offensive to me, and for good reason. Wicca, and its many ...