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Places of worship in Scotland will be required close from Friday until at least the end of the month, as part of a new lockdown announced by the First Minister.
Absolving criminals from within the Jewish community of the need to face retributive justice is a crime against those of us who are most powerless, says Yehudis Fletcher.
A comedian has been charged by the Indian authorities for "hurting religious sentiments" after a group of right-wing Hindus crashed his show and confronted him over jokes he allegedly made about Hindu deities.
"Terrorists" have killed around 100 people in two villages in western Niger, the latest in a string of civilian massacres that have rocked the jihadist-plagued Tillaberi region, a local mayor has said.
A Christian afterschool is sufficiently religious enough to qualify for an exemption from having to pay into a state insurance program, an appeals court ruled last week.
Christian nationalist ideology will almost certainly serve as a barrier for a sizable minority of Americans who need the vaccine, say Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry.
As a group of religious leaders threatens legal action over the closure of places of worship during the coronavirus crisis, Stephen Evans says public health must be the priority in deciding when to reopen them.
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