Grace Carr A majority of Americans say abortion is a sin, according to a survey released Monday. Fifty-two percent of Americans think abortion is a “sin,” according to a 2018 State of Theology surveyreleased Monday, PR Newswire reported. That number rose from 49 percent from the State of Theology’s 2016 survey. “For almost five decades now, abortion has been…
Joshua Gill on October 19, 2018 The Shreveport police department announced it will stop hosting prayer vigils after the Freedom From Religion Foundation claimed they violated the constitution. The FFRF sent a formal complaint August 24 to the police department, asserting that by hosting prayer vigils the police department “prefers religion over nonreligion” and therefore violated the…
Grace Carr Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton said that overturning Roe V. Wade would be “unchristian” and that doing so is totally unthinkable in a SiriusXM interviews Thursday. “We can’t go back to that [pre-Roe V. Wade]. That’s unconscionable to me,” Clinton said. “As a deeply religious person, it’s also unchristian to me,” she continued. Clinton added that she’s recently…
Joshua Gill Pope Francis said Monday that the remedy for those clamoring about the church’s abuse scandals and recent cover-up allegations is prayer and more silence. Francis made the comments during his Monday homily at mass in the Vatican, following not only the fallout over Pennsylvania’s grand jury report on sexual abuse in six dioceses, but also…
With the increasing decline of regular church attendees comes the decline of tithing. As many church leaders confront an already tightening waistline and the prospects of an even more dramatic decline in attendance and tithing as the Baby Boomers pass on to their rewards, it seems that some of them have turned to government largesse…
This month, Gallup released the results of their annual poll on religious practice in America. The most religious state? Mississippi, which has held the crown since 2008. According to the poll, 59% of Mississippi’s residents report being “Very religious,” meaning that “religion is important to them, and they attend religious services weekly or almost weekly.” And…
I’m someone who holds an ongoing interest in the origins of secularism. It’s a fascinating question to me: How did Christianity grow from a small, persecuted movement in Palestine to become the European cultural phenomenon known as “Christendom”, only to be relegated to an ostensibly marginalized position in modern Western society? According to one answer:…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Saagar Enjeti Nearly 200 Sufi Muslims were slaughtered during Mosque services Friday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula by suspected Islamic militants. Sufi Muslims have not been targeted by Islamic militants in Egypt in the past but are regarded by fundamentalist groups like the Islamic State to be heretical. The religious group has faced…
JOSHUA GILL Religion Reporter The Satanic Temple allied with Planned Parenthood in Missouri, relying on religious freedoms to argue against abortion restrictions while Planned Parenthood wages its own legal battle. The Satanic Temple appealed the dismissal of a 2015 Satanist abortion case Monday, and will challenge two of Missouri’s abortion laws Sept. 20, as…
Joshua Gill A 5-year-old Christian girl in the U.K. was allegedly forcefully separated from her family and placed with Muslim foster parents who don’t speak English. The Tower Hamlets borough placed the girl, an English-speaking U.K. native, in foster care with two Muslim families for the past six months, according to a Monday report from The…