Hani Khan, a 20-year-old American Muslim woman, who has been fired for refusing to remove her hijab for religious reason, while working as a stockroom employee at preppy clothing retailer, Hollister, is suing her former employer.
The Dutch lower house has approved a humane slaughter bill that will counter Islamic and Jewish religious practices.
Hani Kahn, a 20-year-old American Muslim woman, was fired when she refused to remove her hijab for religious reasons, while working as a stockroom employee at preppy clothing retailer Hollister.
Pope Benedict XVI has tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal.
Anthropologists have differed over whether to let primitive tribes live in peace, untouched by modern technological advancements, including those in the medical field, or to amalgamate them into modern life gradually. This anthropological dichotomy will perhaps never be resolved. An enormous number of readers posted comments on the IB Times story on the uncontacted tribal people deep inside the Brazilian rainforest.
The battle is over, but the voices of both proponents and opponents are worth considering given that the national movement to legalize gay marriage has been rapidly gaining momentum.
Indonesian migrant labor advocates and analysts say they don't just blame Saudi Arabia for the controversial beheading of 54-year-old Ruyati binti Sapubi. They blame their native Indonesia, for not taking strong enough measures to protect its nation's migrant workers from abuse.
A group of clergy and lawmakers is trying to overturn a policy that allows faith-based organizations receiving federal funding to hire and fire employees on the basis of religion.
Momentum for a vote on gay marriage legislation appears to be building in Albany as Republican lawmakers started into a closed-door session Thursday morning.
Jon Huntsman declared his candidacy for 2012 presidential nomination from the Republican party.
The official beginning of Summer is celebrated all over the Northern Hemisphere.
Apple's iPad is a product that has decimated competition like no other. Android OS-based rivals and challengers in the tablet sphere have bit dust big time when they had to face down the Apple iPad high winds. However, the same is not happening in smartphone segment. The wireless carriers appear to be preferring Android smartphones to Apple iPhones for a variety of reasons, making it challenging for Apple to tip the scale in their favor.
US media on the Saudi women's movement to revoke a long-standing Saudi law, banning women from driving should be careful about conflating culture with religion.
The prospects for New York becoming the sixth state to legalize gay marriage remain uncertain as the Senate's Republican majority continues to vacillate on whether to call a vote before the session ends on Sunday.
In the second of a sequence of hearings, U.S. lawmakers were told that U.S. prisons are becoming a hotbed for indoctrinating inmates and turning them into radical Muslims, AFP reported.
Israeli settlers, still at large, rolled burning tires into a mosque in the West Bank village of Maghayer in the early morning and scrawled Hebrew-language graffiti across the building's exterior.
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New York City can keep religious services out of its schools without violating free speech, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The cries of New York's political establishment fell on deaf ears in the Republican controlled House of Representatives where a bid to end homeland security grant cuts and reserve reduced funding for terror target cities was struck down.
Beijing goes ahead with ordination, despite scorn of the world Catholic community
Mitt Romney is a Mormon. There is no escaping that fact, even if it’s politically incorrect and perhaps unconstitutional (Article VI, paragraph 3) to discriminate against him for his faith.
Rihanna's 'Man Down' stirs controversy over rape and murder scenes.
