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11 hours ago · By Asma Uddin. In recent weeks, a confluence of events has reignited the long-simmering debate about the role of religion in American public life. Louisiana passed a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a move that was cheered by some conservative Christians as an affirmation of the nation’s ...
11 hours ago · In the United States, about 40 million people have stopped going to church over the past 25 years. More people have quit religion than have converted to Christianity, Judaism and Islam combined. That’s the largest shift in church attendance in history. “No faith’s evangelism has been as successful in this century as religious skepticism ...
11 hours ago · Summary. Pilgrimage, as a type of religious journey, involves embodied movement across geographic, social, political, cultural, and often religious boundaries to a sacred place or landscape. It is arguably a universal phenomenon that can engage individual pilgrims or millions, especially with the onset of modernity, which has facilitated travel ...
11 hours ago · A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state. A state with an official religion (also known as confessional state ), while not a secular state, is not necessarily a theocracy. State religions are official or government-sanctioned establishments of a religion, but the state does ...
3 hours ago · 'Miracles' And Religion. It's often people from disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds, ignored by the state and society and left to face their own hardships, who turn to gurus for 'spiritual ...
11 hours ago · By committing to, rather than withdrawing from, dialogue premised on mutual respect and support for justice and human rights, we are committing to recognise cultural and religious differences and ...
11 hours ago · Monrovia – Calls are mounting for Bishop Samuel Quire of the United Methodist Church Liberia Annual Conference to convene a special session to allow church members to take a definitive stance on same-sex marriage. By J.H. Webster Clayeh (0886729972)-websterclayeh@frontpageafricaonline.com Delegates from the United Methodist Church’s General Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, from ...
