For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners ...

Preschoolers from religious families claim that the miracles in biblical stories really occurred. Young children (4 to 6 yrs) are more likely to believe that story characters and impossible events ...

Initially, more than 600 students participated in off-campus religious education in the Gary, Indiana school district. Years later, the program faced major court battles.

Whether public money can be used for religious education has seriously changed over my lifetime. Based on the Emoluments Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the government was ...

Colorado’s Constitution, like those in many other states, prohibits using public money for religious purposes. But a series of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions has hollowed out such provisions.

With conservative states increasingly moving to insert Christianity into public education, the Satanic Temple sees an opportunity to inject its counter-programming of religion into the schools, and it ...

It has been an especially active few weeks for news about religion in public schools. The Texas Education Agency proposed a new curriculum that would incorporate teaching Biblical stories into ...

Indiana and Michigan law allows public school students to receive religious instruction during the school day.There are local concerns that the law doesn't do e ...

Schools must release students for religious education under a bill headed to the governor’s desk. House Bill 1137 retained language about religious instruction but axed language that would have ...

News Ohio public schools are releasing kids for religious instruction during the school day. Soon, they could be required to do it. Updated: May. 27, 2024, 10:25 p.m ...