Think your beliefs preclude you from being influenced by religious thoughts? Think again. Psychologists at Queen’s University have demonstrated that test subjects who are primed to think ...

(RNS) — Raised in an evangelical church she now describes as a “dumpster fire” of fundamentalist beliefs, Laura Anderson’s terror of hell kept her up at night ...

Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his majority opinion, over a dissent from the four liberal justices, that forcing companies to pay for methods of women's contraception to which they object violates the ...

As a follow-up to Part 1 on this subject, here are two more ways to improve control over your thinking and behavior. "Mind over matter" is a central theme in most religions. The idea is that proper ...

A woman friend of mine, a Republican (or used to be), said to me recently, when I asked her about her stand on abortion, "Men have controlled me my whole life! Women should have total control over ...

Yesterday I spoke before the Committee on Prevention Services for Women at the Institute of Medicine on the critical importance of covering birth control as a preventive service in health care. The ...

A former nurse practitioner for a CVS Health Corp clinic claimed discrimination in a suit filed Wednesday after she had been fired for refusing to prescribe birth control, as it violated her personal ...

Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias and Christian leaders in Western Indian Maharashtra state have opposed a government proposal to bring worship places of all religions under the government’s control. “I ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a law into effect that significantly tightens control over various religious denominations and organizations. The law, ...

Haredi parties battle for control of capital's religious bureaucracy, leading to boycotts of coalition legislation as form of ...