Thomas E. Salisbury

Pope Francis urged all the peoples of the world to put aside “partisan games” and all hostilities and to regard others as “like human beings” and “brothers and sisters in the faith”. The Pope made this appeal Thursday at the…

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“No to religious fundamentalism and absolute nationalism,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said at the International Meeting of Religions and Cultures in Rome. Yesterday at the end of the afternoon, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew…

A person receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Los Angeles in April. // Getty Images, Mario Tama Updated October 4, 2021, 12:51 p.m. ETBrittany Watson!-->…

By Matthew Santoni (September 27, 2021, 9:06 p.m. EDT) - Federal judge will not stop Pennsylvania school mask warrant for four parents claiming masks violate their religious freedoms, finding on Monday that parents did not…

In Northern California, the pastor of a mega-church distributes religious exemption forms to worshipers. A New Mexico state senator "will help you formulate a religious exemption" by pointing to the decades-old use of aborted fetal cells…

His interpretation of Islam excludes the slightest deviation from orthodoxy. Its penal code imposes corporal punishment reminiscent of the Middle Ages. They separate women from the public space and when they have access to them, they…

At the end of my article last Tuesday, I alluded to a brewing controversy at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So I'm grateful to Greg Rosauer for sharing a guest post today that expands on this story and draws a useful…

The British Columbia Court of Appeal stated that an “honest and sincere religious belief” should be considered a ground for avoiding the sex necessary to consummate a marriage. The highest court in the province last week annulled the…

Fundamentalism is the belief in ancient and traditional forms of religion or the belief that anything written in a holy book is true. This was particularly evident in the 20th century, which seeks to reclaim and publicly institutionalize…