Jean-François Roberge opened public hearings into Bill 9, the Quebec government’s latest attempt to strengthen secularism in ...
François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government has tabled another bill aimed at tightening the province’s secularism laws. The legislation builds on a years-long effort to limit religion in the ...
On the first day of consultations on Bill 9, Quebec municipalities expressed concern the proposed secularism law would open them up to lawsuits. Others maintain the bill infringes on fundamental ...
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.
The discussion also drew in recent controversies and court-linked disputes around Waqf properties, minority rights and Centre–state tensions John Brittas and Tejasvi Surya at MBIFL 2026 Questions ...
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 ...
Since dharma in our tradition has never meant religion in the narrow sense, dharma nirapekshata unnecessarily conveys indifference to a society’s moral values ...
Alberto Valdez from Del Rio, Texas, joins others March 24 for the Reason Rally, a gathering of atheists and nonbelievers held on the National Mall in Washington. (CNS/Religion News Service/Tyrone ...
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 ...