(RNS) — The issue of women staffers who have the title of pastor in SBC churches has been up for debate repeatedly in recent years. DALLAS (RNS) — For the second year in a row, a move to bar churches ...

Elsewhere Too, a new San Antonio bar with a giant Ferris wheel, suffered damage from visitors during its first week open. Owners of the new Northside bar said they've had several instances of children ...

GATINEAU — Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon wants to attack elementary school children in proposing they be barred from wearing conspicuous religious symbols, a Quebec cabinet minister ...

The International Olympic Committee defended the Middle Eastern nation's right to stay within world sport Tuesday, citing compliance with the Olympic Charter and recognition of both its and the ...

Arab and Islamic foreign ministers are gathering in Doha after Israel’s unprecedented missile strikes on Qatar that killed five Hamas members and a Qatari officer. The summit aims to formulate a ...

Read on to find out which beaches ban smoking in Spain A NEW country-wide ban could soon be rolled out across Spain, affecting British tourists. The Spanish government government introduced a bill ...

MADRID - Spain's minority leftist government introduced a bill on Tuesday to ban smoking at outdoor venues including beaches, bar and restaurant terraces, bus stops and stadiums. The ban would also ...

In the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting, senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials ...

Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to bar any consideration of race in redistricting, abandoning its defense of its own current congressional map in a move that could reshape the Voting Rights Act ...

QUEBEC — The Legault government plans to table legislation that would ban people from praying in the streets. In the same week as a government advisory committee recommended letting municipalities ...

The report says the measure, coming more than a year after Ankara imposed a $7 billion annual trade embargo on Israel over its war in Gaza against Hamas, would prohibit all direct ship traffic from ...