A new directive encourages Ramadan-themed events and mosque visits in Turkish schools. Critics warn it pressures students and challenges secular principles, while the government says participation is ...

Minister Tekin filed a lawsuit against the 168 people who signed the Secularism Declaration, and President Erdoğan also ...

The Turkish president says critics target Türkiye’s religious identity and national values, as backlash to Ramadan activities in schools ...

(RNS) — At its core, secularism is an approach to governance, writes Jacques Berlinerblau in his new book ‘Secularism: The Basics.’ And critically, it is one many religious people, not just atheists ...

A statement by 168 signatories criticizing Ramadan-themed school activities prompts constitutional debate and renewed references to the Feb. 28 ...

During an address at his alma mater last week, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth discussed the rise of secularism in Britain and how Christianity in contrast enables ...

IT SEEMS FITTING that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ attempted deletion of God from the Pledge of Allegiance was eclipsed the next day by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision upholding ...

The 67 million Catholics in the United States represent just six percent of the global Catholic population of 1.2 billion, but we sometimes have a hard time understanding how the other 94 percent ...

The rise of a secular culture, combined with an increasing number of self-identified atheists and agnostics in western societies, has led to a certain amount of handwringing among religious believers.

In the public school I went to in the 1970s, "secular" was A neutral, descriptive word. Our social-studies teacher taught us that ours was a "secular" government, by which she meant that we lived free ...

Editor’s note: On Sunday’s Op-Ed page, sociologist Phil Zuckerman took aim at those who blame increasing secularism in this country for a host of societal ills, including recent mass shootings. He ...

Men praying at the Islamic Cultural Center of Courcouronnes in Evry, France. Since 1989, the appearance of the hijab (Muslim headscarf) in French public schools has opened the most impassioned debate ...