An Indian court has been asked to rule on whether Ashutosh Maharaj, a revered Hindu guru, is dead or alive and whether the decision is based on religious faith or scientific fact.
Indonesia’s religious affairs minister resigned on May 26 after being accused of misusing funds that were intended to help Muslim pilgrims visit Mecca.
Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to Iowa officials asking the state government not to fund a Christian-themed park in Sioux City.
Six of the seven people, who were arrested in Iran for dancing to Pharrell Williams’ hit song Happy in a YouTube video that subsequently went viral, were freed on May 21.
U.S. District Court Judge John Jones III nullified Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriages on May 20 after quashing the teaching of intelligent design in public schools earlier.
Social networking and microblogging website Twitter sent a notice to Atheist Republic asking it to block certain URLs that it had posted in commemoration of Everybody Draw Mohammad Day.
After school in Idaho banned a controversial book from its reading list, a student at the school organized a free distribution of the book at a nearby park. This led to Christian parents demanding the book be banned across America.
Mariam Yahya Ibrahim had been charged with adultery for marrying a Christian man and been ordered by the court to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith to revert to Islam.