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Laurie and Mike Riley like to walk their dogs around their Weston, Florida, neighborhood in the evenings. The squirrels scurrying about the tree-lined paths have been an ordinary sight of the after-dinner tradition — that is, until 4-year-old Myroslav and 5-year-old Volodymyr Nemets and their parents joined them from Ukraine…

Foreigners in Bali find themselves in hot water with Hindus over offensive social media posts, including a man who attempted a Māori Haka on a holy mountain while naked.

After leaving the church in his early 20s, the former Hack host spent more than a decade making up for lost time in the party scene. Now a father, he’s looking for meaning without religion

Its verdicts on loudspeakers were aimed to protect citizens from becoming ‘forced audience’ to noise

Religious communities are flooding to the frontlines of the country’s fight for abortion rights

My father was neither a constitutional scholar nor a theologian. In fact, with his high school education, he delivered letters for the post office for 44 years in our small south Texas hometown.

In the 1990s, when Congress was embarking on yet another reckless attempt to legislate public prayer in public schools, the Republican senator from Oregon, Mark O. Hatfield, asked for the floor. Hatfield, an evangelical and lifelong Baptist, testified that he had frequently prayed in school — typically before math tests.

India should replace marriage and inheritance laws that are based on religion with a uniform civil code, the chief minister of a northeastern state said on Sunday, taking aim at rules that allow Muslim men, for example, to have four wives.

There's something special happening when we meditate. But how does it actually work? One expert says the key to finding out is bringing together insights from many disciplines — from neuroscience to philosophy and religion.