On the one hand, there is one of the world’s largest religions, and on the other is a subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters. Things might get interesting when the two sides meet.
The owners of the modern-day Ark in northern Kentucky are worried about damages caused by flooding. Compensatory and punitive damages are requested in a lengthy 77-page lawsuit filed at the U.S District Court that originated in 2019.
Seattle Pacific University, a private Christian liberal arts university in the US state of Washington, is facing an investigation over an alleged prohibition of hiring members of the LGBT community.
The school mandates that employees are not to engage in same-sex sexual activity, extramarital sex, and cohabitating before marriage.
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said his office is investigating the alleged discrimination.
American views on the Bible have seen significant changes in recent times, even as Christian-Nationalist leaders, many of whom were appointed during the tenure of President Trump, push various conservative legislation. America's rapid growth as a secular country hasn't halted, as only a fifth of the country's total population (a record low) believes that the Bible is the literal word of God.
Pakistan's Blasphemy law has ruined many and sometimes taken lives since the country declared independence. In a recent hearing, a Christian believer named Ashfaq Masih, a mechanic was sentenced to death for blasphemy. The man was accused of insulting Prophet Muhammad by saying, "Jesus is supreme."
Teachers have been bewildered by the introduction of religious teachings in school education in Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis recently launched a Civics Literacy Excellence Initiative (CLEI), which made Floridian teachers attend a three-day training session to learn how to indoctrinate students about Christianity.
Dozens of people held captive in the basement of a church in Nigeria were freed by the police. They were waiting for their ascend to heaven after the second coming of Jesus Christ, as preached by the pastors responsible for the abduction.
On Tuesday, May 31, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) released an article condemning politicians who blamed the Texas school shooting "on atheism, irreligiosity or lack of faith."
The FFRF "is condemning a recent barrage of troubling comments by politicians callously blaming the Texas school shooting on atheism, irreligiosity, or lack of faith," the article said.
In the nearly 300-page report of an independent investigation, the first correlative study of the immense Protestant sect of Southern Baptists, several top clergy members were found to have minimized, ignored, and even vilified sex abuse survivors who came forward for help.
Pope Francis declared Devasahayam, also known as Lazarus, a saint on May 16, thus making him the first Indian layman to be canonized.
Devasahayam was born into an upper-caste Hindu family in 1712 in the south Indian town of Kanyakumari. He was baptized in 1745 in Travancore (modern-day Kerela), fought against caste discrimination, and advocated for social equality.
