The Center for Inquiry Inc. and one of its members lack standing to litigate a constitutional challenge to a Texas law that ...

Democrats are generally disinclined to discuss religion, much less debate it. They like to point out that Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin were famously atheist, Thomas Jefferson and dozens of other ...

Experts say Islamic law, or sharia, holds wide appeal for Muslim populations in many countries and is beginning to spread via democratic means, but it is also being used as a tool of Islamic militancy ...

The article explains that secular courts can't resolve religious disputes involving doctrine or church governance, unless they use neutral, secular principles. Courts can review church documents and ...

As Quebec's secularism law, Bill 21, faces a challenge at the Supreme Court of Canada, some women in Quebec say they’ve paid the highest price. The law bans certain public workers from wearing ...

The law has a neutral view of religious belief, the president of the Family Division said today, stressing the secular nature of the judges’ job. In a keynote address to the first annual conference of ...

There is an awful lot of nonsense written about religion, My approach has always been to study the actions of religionists, not their texts. (This is usually impossible for intellectuals, who are ...

Legal reforms in Abu Dhabi designed to enhance the emirate's appeal to foreigners will allow for non-Muslim judges, birth certificates for children of unmarried parents, equality of men and women as ...

“If anyone causes one of these little ones — those who believe in me — to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the ...