The Texas Senate has passed a pair of bills to introduce religion in public schools. One would require the Ten Commandments ...

A man is facing charges after allegedly breaking into several temples in New York City's Chinatown and damaging religious ...

The Texas Senate on Tuesday advanced bills that would require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments and allow districts to provide students with time to pray during school hours.

AUSTIN — Texas public school leaders could impose on students a mandatory period of praying and reading religious texts under ...

A fascinating new study shows how these seemingly contradictory practices might share more in common than anyone realized.

A hilltop Buddhist temple in Bhutan, built in the 15th century, attracts visitors from across the globe, many of them struggling to conceive. They often make return visits, with children, believing ...

A recently ordered investigation into Buddhist land holdings in P.E.I. could provide the first legal test of measures in the Lands Protection Act meant to prevent concentration of land ownership ...

Before his execution, lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was 18 when he was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old ...

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

India, often revered as the land of spiritual awakening, has been a cradle of Buddhism for centuries, preserving its rich ...