Religious News
(SRN NEWS)-VERBATIM: The landmark 1972 law bars discrimination based on sex, but lately transgender people have been trying to use it to allow males into female restrooms, locker rooms and onto female sports teams. Now Republicans in Congress are moving to address the problem, advancing a bill that would clearly...
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Atheists attack a flag in Missouri
(SRN NEWS)- Under threat of a lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the firehouse in Diamond has taken down the Christian flag it had been flying. The flag, which many churches fly, is mostly white with a red cross on a field of blue. The Foundation claims it is...
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Ukrainians are spreading the gospel
(SRN NEWS)- A lot of them fled their country after the Russian invasion in 2022 but they took their faith with them. According to European Christian Mission International, displaced Ukrainians have founded more than 160 churches in the nations they have fled to. ECMI...
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Religious News Headlines
Trump says Gulf leaders’ input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes- RELIGION HEADLINES-SAT 8-1-26
- Palestinians in Gaza hope Hamas will disarm but fear Israeli forces won’t withdraw
- Trump says he will order halt to Iran strikes after parameters reached for deal to end war
- A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV, and says “Hi”
- White House signals Trump is weighing new strikes on Iran, and other developments in the Middle East
- As progressives seek to take on inequality, some cite religion as a motivating factor
- Israelis worry about weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans
- A warning from one of the country’s leading Christian researchers
- Do you like the way you worship?
- Finally, some good news from Iran
- Man gets 6-month sentence for ramming car into Jewish group’s NY world headquarters
- RELIGION HEADLINES WED 7-29
- A Maryland church is going to court
- It’s back-to-school time in California
- A new report on family from a British organization
- A liberal group has some advice for Democrats
- Fringe Israeli settler group is sneaking into Syria to try to claim land for a Jewish outpost
- Austria’s 16th-century bell foundry adds modern technology to keep the casting process alive
- US launches strikes on Iranian targets a day after it foiled missile attack on American forces
- Photos show a rare look inside Tibet, 75 years after what China calls a ‘peaceful liberation’
- US thwarts an Iranian missile attack and launches strikes with Saudi Arabia against militias in Iraq
- GLOBAL LANDSCAPE TUE 7-28
- RELIGION HEADLINES TUE 7-28
- New guidance on religious liberty from the Trump administration
- Israel is making preparations for a big Christian event
- Christian leaders debate artificial intelligence
- Bosnian authorities investigate desecration and fire damage at Medjugorje Virgin Mary shrine
- A wall through Nicosia reflects the decades-old ethnic divide in Cyprus, in photos
- Federal judge dismisses a lawsuit over makeup of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission
- GLOBAL LANDSCAPE MON 7-27
- RELIGION HEADLINES MON 7-27
- The White House supports a WNBA player
- A new report on young adults and faith
- A Trump administration nominee talks abortion
- The State Department promotes life
- Mediators see progress in efforts to halt Iran war as drone attacks rattle region
- US and Iran pause their attacks after days of escalation
- Israel detains over 70 suspects following deadly violence in the West Bank
- NYC stabbings suspect arrested on hate crime charges in both attacks
- GLOBAL LANDSCAPE FRI 7-24
- RELIGION HEADLINES FRI 7-24
- Samaritan’s Purse is on the ground in Venezuela
- The United Nations is worried about fertility
- The prime minister of Iraq wants Christians to come home
- A pro-family group is erecting billboards across the U.S.
- UNESCO adds West Bank site and Lebanese castles to World Heritage List despite Israeli objections
- US military says it fired on another merchant vessel trying to breach its blockade of Iranian ports
- Orthodox monks are the first to live and pray at a monastery in Estonia for 80 years
- Eight years after deadliest antisemitic attack in US history, Tree of Life rabbi bids farewell
