Bethany Blankley: The Biblical Civil Disobedience Mandate

Religious organizations, hospitals and universities are justified in not following the new Health and Human Services Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rule as their conscience dictates.

My View: Preventing a "citizen-less" nation through higher education

Editor's Note: Noliwe Rooks is the associate director of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and the founding coordinator of the center's urban education reform initiative. You can follow her on Twitter @nrookie . Today, fewer Americans than ever believe one requirement of citizenship is to right the wrongs in our nation. So says a recent report by the American ...

Unholy Madrasas of Pakistan

The Persian word madrasa literally means a school where education is imparted. Conventionally, the religious education related to Islam has been provided in madrasas.

Four bishops sign letter objecting to treating same-sex unions like marriage

WASHINGTON -- A letter signed by more than three dozen U.S. religious leaders objects to the specter of religious groups being forced to treat same-sex unions "as if they were marriage."

Church ban causes stir in City Council

A decision by the United States Supreme Court is causing controversy in Queens and throughout the city over the definition of the separation between church and state. The court recently refused to hea