The Okanogan County prosecutor is waiting for the sheriff to complete the investigation into the death of a 17-year-old boy who died at home of a burst appendix.
Zachery “Zakk” Swezey had no medical care during a three-day illness in March because his family, members of the Church of the First Born, believe in faith healing.
In a story published Thursday the documents say the parents, Greg a
A principal’s order that a Muslim employee stop wearing a religious hat and ring was not discriminatory because it was never enforced, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Thursday.
The District 4 Court of Appeals said former Case High School hall monitor Fard Mohammed never stopped wearing the black skullcap known as a kufi and the “pilgrimage” ring and was never disciplined for doing so. That mean
Religious police in Saudi Arabia are cracking down on summer festivals and circuses intended by the government to boost domestic tourism, because they violate strict religious restrictions on singing, dancing, the mixing of unrelated men and women, and “evil” circus performances, Reuters reported.
Conservative clerics backed by powerful members of the Saudi royal family oppose the efforts to li
In wake of the deadly attacks on Christians by Muslim mobs on August 1, Christians have issued a statement calling for the repeal of Islamic law they feel is misused by Muslim extremists.
The National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), a human rights body of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, has started collecting signatures in support of repealing the controversial blasphemy laws (especia
Raneen Albaghdady will sue a Wayne County judge who ordered her to remove her head scarf during a routine name-change application.
The Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) will join her in the lawsuit against judge J. William Callahan to be filed today.
In a partial video of the hearing posted to YouTube, Judge Callahan can be heard saying, “Okay. The head
More children from the Dove World Outreach Center arrived Tuesday at area public schools with shirts bearing the message “Islam is of the Devil” and were sent home for violation of the school district’s dress code when they declined to change clothes or cover the anti-Muslim statement on their clothing.
School district staff attorney Tom Wittmer said the shirts violated a district ban on clothi
Candomblé, a religion practiced primarily in South America and inspired by older African beliefs, makes much use of animal sacrifice. Researchers writing in the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine carried out interviews with priests, priestesses and adherents of the religion, documenting the role sacrifice plays in their beliefs.
The practice of sacrifice is present in several cultures, a
More than 1,000 years ago, people walked the hills of what is now Calhoun County.
Most traces of them are gone, but the American Indians who called this land home left a few markers. Some are scattered on hilltops in the form of sacred mounds.
One pile of stones on a particular hilltop evokes the curved body of a snake. And there are formations with purposes unclear and at times in dispute.
The purpose of sleep remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. Although we spend roughly one-third of life asleep, researchers still do not know why.
While sleep is often thought to have evolved to play an unknown but vital role inside the body, a new theory now suggests it actually developed as a method to better deal with the outside world.
Sleep is often seen as bad for s
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is drafting a formal recommendation that all male infants born in the U.S. be circumcised as a way to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, the New York Times reports. Recent studies have shown that in African countries circumcision reduces a man’s risk of infection by 50%; however, those studies focused on heterosexual men who are at a high risk of contract
