Tag: Religion

According to police, this is the neighborhood's third anti-Semitic incident in less than a week. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

11-year-old boy charged after setting Jewish school bus on fire

Kelly Cohen · May 10, 2016 4:59 pm

The ACLU argues the Mississippi law, HB 1523, violates the 14th Amendment by "creating a separate and unequal set of laws applying only to the marriages of same-sex couples." (AP Photo)

ACLU files lawsuit against Mississippi religious freedom law

Kelly Cohen · May 9, 2016 5:53 pm

Liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof suggested that if President Trump's budget proposal, which eliminates funding for federal arts programs, were to pass, fewer people would read and democratic principles would suffer. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

NY Times columnist bemoans lack of intellectual diversity in academia

Ashe Schow · May 9, 2016 4:39 pm

One would hope that the Supreme Court would not affirm such behavior but would instead vindicate, not only the religious organizations' compelling claims, but also religious freedom itself. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Decision looms in pivotal religious liberty cases at Supreme Court

gregory-baylor, David Cortman · May 9, 2016 4:02 am

Newly elected Sadiq Khan has bashed Donald Trump for "divisive" comments about Muslims. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

National Security

Clinton praises London’s first Muslim mayor

Daniel Chaitin · May 7, 2016 8:09 pm

Christian conservatives were sometimes mocked for their moralizing. But their focus on character served a purpose.

Beltway Confidential

Donald Trump and the end of the ‘character issue’

Daniel Allott · May 6, 2016 12:04 am

Ethnic and religious identity matters to the world and apparently to Trump supporters. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Trump, anti-Semitism and remembrance

Annika Hernroth-Rothstein · May 5, 2016 4:03 am

Trump: Comments from Cruz’s father a ‘disgrace’

Trump: Comments from Cruz’s father a ‘disgrace’

Kelly Cohen · May 3, 2016 12:08 pm

Relatives of a soldier killed by Islamic State militants in Syria cry during his funeral. The increase in CPCs is partly due to the inclusion of non-state actors like the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Report: Religious freedom ‘under serious and sustained assault’ globally

Daniel Allott · May 2, 2016 10:57 pm

"Immigrants want to stay home," Bishop Minerva Carcano told House Judiciary subcommittee members during an immigration hearing. "They are not able to stay home because we have undermined their economies. We have raped their lands." (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Methodist church on illegal immigrants: ‘We have raped their lands’

Joel Gehrke · April 19, 2016 5:28 pm

"What I'd like to say is, just relax," Kasich said on CNN. "If you don't like what somebody's doing, pray for them, and if you feel as though somebody is doing something wrong against you, can you just for a second get over it? You know?" (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Kasich tells supporters of religious freedom laws: ‘Get over it’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 17, 2016 2:10 pm

The Church Protection Act allows some members to undergo firearms training so they can carry guns into church buildings to provide armed security. (AP Photo)

Mississippi governor signs bill allowing church members to carry guns

Kelly Cohen · April 15, 2016 5:29 pm