Religion and politics

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Former senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, center, leaves Capitol Medical Center where former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III was transported in Quezon city, Philippines Thursday, June 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan)

Philippine democracy scion, ex-leader Benigno Aquino dies

By Jim Gomez 5 hrs ago

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, file photo, Indonesian Islamic cleric and the leader of Islamic Defenders Front Rizieq Shihab, center, gestures to his followers as he arrives from Saudi Arabia in Jakarta, Indonesia. Shihab was sentenced to another four years in prison on Thursday, June 24, 2021, for concealing information about his coronavirus test result. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)

Indonesian cleric gets 4 years for concealing COVID-19 test

By Niniek Karmini And Dita Alangkara 14 hrs ago

One Nevada church settles, other pressing COVID-19 lawsuit

By Scott Sonner 23 hrs ago
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The state has agreed to pay $175,000 in legal fees to settle a lawsuit with a rural Nevada church over COVID-19 capacity caps on religious...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center, chairs the first weekly cabinet meeting of the new government in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 20, 2021. Bennett opened his first Cabinet meeting on Sunday since swearing in his new coalition government with a condemnation of the newly elected Iranian president, whom he called “the hangman of Tehran.” (Emmanuel Dunand/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel launches official probe into deadly festival stampede

Jun. 20, 2021 08:30 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2018, photo, Ammon Bundy poses for a photo in Emmett, Idaho. On Saturday, June 19, 2021, anti-government activist Bundy came out with his first video announcing his campaign to become governor of Idaho. (Kelsey Grey/Idaho Statesman via AP)

Anti-government activist Bundy issues Idaho campaign videos

By The Associated Press Jun. 19, 2021 10:23 PM EDT

In this image taken from video, Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, addresses the body's virtual assembly on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops via AP)

US Catholic bishops OK steps toward possible rebuke of Biden

By David Crary Jun. 18, 2021 03:42 PM EDT

FILE - This June 8, 2021 file photo shows the Supreme Court building in Washington. A Thursday, June 17, 2021 Supreme Court ruling that favored Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia was far from the constitutional gale wind that would have reshaped how courts interpret religious liberty under the First Amendment. Governmental entities are now on notice that if they want to ban discrimination against LGBTQ persons or anyone else, they had better not allow for any exceptions – or else religious groups will have the right to ask for them, and they'll have a strong case for getting them. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Catholic foster care agency wins Supreme Court verdict

By Jessica Gresko Jun. 17, 2021 03:20 PM EDT

Panel OKs House GOP bill to ban employer vaccine mandates

By Mark Scolforo Jun. 15, 2021 12:17 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A ban on employers mandating vaccines for their workers inched ahead in the state House on Tuesday with a committee vote supported by...

Court orders new look at minister's virus restriction suit

By Kevin Mcgill Jun. 12, 2021 01:27 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a Louisiana minister’s lawsuit challenging now-expired coronavirus restrictions on church services. ...

In this image made from video provided by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, demonstrators march to protest the death of a prisoner in Diah, Bahrain, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Hundreds on Wednesday held a rare protest in Bahrain over the death of a vaccinated prisoner from the coronavirus held by the island kingdom. The banner in Arabic reads: "The liberated and honorable martyr has prevailed, the martyr prisoner Husain Barakat." (Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy via AP)

Hundreds hold rare protest in Bahrain after prisoner's death

By Jon Gambrell Jun. 10, 2021 05:29 AM EDT

Supporters of Tony Spell, pastor of the Life Tabernacle Church of Central City, La., listen to speakers outside the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Monday, June 7, 2021. Spell, who flouted coronavirus restrictions last year, prepared Monday to ask the court to revive his lawsuit challenging the restrictions. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Pastor seeks revival of suit challenging virus restrictions

By Kevin Mcgill Jun. 07, 2021 12:04 PM EDT

First lady Jill Biden embraces a person receiving a vaccine speak as she visits the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Jill Biden, Dr. Fauci visit vaccine site at Harlem church

Jun. 06, 2021 05:41 PM EDT

This June 2, 2021 photo shows St. James the Less parish in La Crosse, Wis. The Rev. James Altman who heads the parish, announced during a homily on May 23, that Diocese of La Crosse Bishop Patrick Callahan had asked for his resignation. (Marilyn J. Richmond via AP)

Wisconsin priest digs in to refuse bishop's demand to resign

By Todd Richmond And David Crary Jun. 05, 2021 09:34 AM EDT

An Afghan doctor checks a COVID-19 patient at the Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 30, 2021. Afghanistan is battling a brutal third wave of COVID infections, while health officials plead for vaccines, expressing deep frustration at the inequities of the global vaccine distribution. Positive COVID cases jump from eight percent to 60 per cent in some parts of the country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Amid brutal case surge, Afghanistan hit by a vaccine delay

By Kathy Gannon Jun. 05, 2021 02:08 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2020, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington. The state of California has agreed to pay more than $2 million in legal fees in a settlement with churches that challenged coronavirus closure orders. Church lawyers who successfully took their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday, June 2, 2021, that the state agreed not to impose restrictions on houses of worship that are greater than those on retail businesses. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

California to pay $2M church legal fees over virus closures

By Brian Melley Jun. 02, 2021 07:44 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press Jun. 02, 2021 02:54 PM EDT
Albany Times Union. June 2, 2021. Editorial: Stop the gunfire The gun violence Albany is experience this year is part...