Quoted: Brazil was once held up by academics as a "racial democracy" but in recent years there has been a more heated debate in the country ...

Quoted: “The primary reason I am here is because of gender equality,” said Rebecca Israel, 25, who was raised in an Orthodox family. Ms. Israel attended D.C. Minyan and Tikkun Leil Shabbat, which she visited one recent Friday, until she moved a year ago to New York, where she goes to Kehilat Hadar. “If Judaism is central to my morality, then its practices needed to reflect the morality that I learned from it. In religious practices that limit women’s participation, Orthodox shuls were not living up to that equality that is important to me.”

Quoted: "It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual.

"You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred.

"It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society."

Quoted: An increasing number of Evangelical Christians are fleeing Eritrea amid claims of religious persecution.

Quoted: Here is the situation regarding the enterprise known as Your Black Muslim Bakery, located on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland, Calif. Its founder, a man named Yusuf Bey, was arrested in 2002 and charged with forcing an underage girl to have sex. Subsequent inve

Pete Redot

you got to be kidding me!!! I guess it is comforting to know where else the 10% goes >>>>

Quoted: Religious organizations buying a lot of coverage may need to prove that they're taking precautions to lower the risk of sex abuse.

But insurance companies created these abuse-specific policies only after the lawsuits of the mid-80s forced them to make large payouts. Until then, general liability policies didn't specifically rule out sex abuse, so churches that needed to pay damages argued that insurers should pay.

"They say Sharia is for the Muslims. As for me, my religion does not stop me from selling or taking alcohol, why should they try to interfere with my business?" she asks

Quoted: The Sharia police, or Hisbah, say they will soon begin raids on "pleasure island" in northern Nigeria's ancient Muslim city of Kano.