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The top religion stories of 2023

By Paul O'Donnell — December 29, 2023
(RNS) — Some of the year's most dramatic global events had religion at their center.

An Arizona school board member was told to stop quoting the Bible. Now she’s suing.

By Kathryn Post — October 2, 2023
(RNS) — Heather Rooks, a Christian who attends a large nondenominational church, says her First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of religion have been violated.

They’re banning Anne Frank. Are you kidding me?!?!

By Jeffrey Salkin — August 17, 2022
(RNS) — Warning: They are coming for our young people’s brains.

The good, the bad and the factual: Seeing American history through a biblical lens

By Thomas Reese — February 16, 2022
(RNS) — Bible history wasn’t written to make the Jewish people feel good about themselves.

Overcoming fears of ‘making noise,’ US Muslims step into civic life

By Eric Berger — April 2, 2019
ST. LOUIS (RNS) — The group Muslims for a Better America plunged into local politics in this city when a candidate who described herself as a 'Confederate' ran for school board.

New Jersey school board member quits over anti-Muslim comments

By RNS staff — April 23, 2016
"Go back to your own country; America needs to get rid of people like you," wrote the school board member, according to CAIR.

Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green launches a new project: a public school Bible curriculum

By David Van Biema — April 15, 2014
(RNS) If successful, Steve Green would galvanize the movement to teach the Bible academically in public schools across the nation.
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