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A court in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has ordered attorneys representing the local Catholic Bishops Council to read Hindu scriptures before a lawsuit can continue. The state’s government had ordered public schools to incorporate “Gita Sar”– a summary of the Hindu scriptures, the Baghavad Gita– into their curriculum, reports the Indian Express newspaper.  The bishops had filed suit asking the state’s…

A New York court has dismissed a suit by a Jehovah’s Witness who sued doctors for giving her a blood transfusion that saved her life.  Nancy DiGeronimo sued her doctor and Staten Island University Hospital for medical malpractice alleging the transfusions of another person’s blood conflicted with her religious beliefs, reports the Staten Island Advance newspaper. The 5-year-old case against Dr.…

China’s estimated 485 million Internet users include 195 million Twitter “tweeters” and other social network “microbloggers,” reports Caixin Weekly, a Chinese business magazine. But how long will the government — which tightly controls Chinese society — allow such freedom of expression? One excuse that the government may use to clamp down is that the social media…

Celebrating their team’s 109th anniversary, Spain’s premier professional soccer team Real Madrid took the field in Guangzhou, China, a few days ago against — yes, count ‘em — 109 young soccer players from local teams. To see the video, CLICK HERE

Every Sunday morning, P.S. 144 elementary school in Queens, like dozens more schools in New York City and thousands more nationwide, is transformed into a house of worship for a few hours. There’s no tally of how many churches, synagogues and mosques convert public school spaces into prayer places for the nominal cost of permits and promises…

A 40-year-old Buddhist nun whose melodies have transformed her into one of Nepal’s most popular singing stars, has caused a new stir for which she refuses to apologize. She has extended sanctuary to a nun half her age who became stigmatized after being gang-raped last month. In Nepal’s culture, a rape victim is often blamed and…

 Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed concern a new outbreak of violence against Muslim ethnic Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region. About 20 Uyghurs were killed in separate incidents in the cities in Kashghar and Hotan in the southern part of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, according to Istanbul’s daily Hürriyet newspaper. “The violent incidents resulting in death…

“Pro-choice” activists have launched a legal assault on volunteer-run “crisis pregnancy counseling centers” nationwide — which is ironic, says author R. Albert Mohler Jr.,  since the crews running such storefronts are dedicated to offering pregnant woman a real choice. “The U.S. Supreme Court’s declaration of war upon the unborn in its infamous 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade, caught…

“Ground Zero is a graveyard,” writes Rabbi David Wolpe in the Washington Post‘s On Faith section. “Yes, it is a national site and a place of competing interests, and a reminder of a peril facing our country and the world. But it is also a place where many people died and left no remains to…

In response to a voter’s question about whom he admires, former Minnesota governor and GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty said that Jesus is one of his “political heroes.” The Washington Post‘s “On Faith” writer Elizabeth Tenety cited Jon Ward’s report of the campaign event: Pawlenty first talked about his father — “a big guy, a Polish guy,…
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