The Wichita Falls ISD School Board chose Tuesday night to decline to participate in district-sponsored, faith-based activities spelled out in Texas Senate Bill 11. SB 11, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed ...

Jon Hallford, condemned in court as ‘monster’, stashed decaying bodies and gave grieving families fake ashes A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four ...

Funerals will take place on Saturday (February 7, 2026) for some of the victims of a suicide blast at a Shiite mosque in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad that killed at least 31 people and wounded scores ...

Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, Trump recalled a prominent pastor once noticing that he seemed to lack a familiarity with the Bible SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty President Donald ...

THIS is the awkward moment a group of backpackers mistakenly gatecrash a Thai funeral thinking it’s a restaurant. A pair of German tourists were seen entering a private backyard wake in Nakhon Si ...

Euphoric scenes are a snub to theocracy’s culture of piety, say analysts, and carry message of rebellion Iranians killed in recent protests that rocked the country have been laid to rest in boisterous ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- What books should your children be reading in school? It's a question the Texas State Board of Education is considering. Lawmakers are voting on a reading list with more than ...

HOUSTON — A major effort to bring religious texts back into Texas classrooms has hit a pause, but it is far from over. State education leaders delayed a final vote on a controversial proposal to add ...

Texas education leaders are considering a major change that would require public school students to study passages from the Bible as part of their English Language Arts curriculum. The proposal is ...

Debates over what constitutes the American literary canon—and whether Bible excerpts should be a part of it—erupted on Wednesday during a tense Texas State Board of Education discussion over a ...

Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease Tarabishi Family Maher Tarabishi was detained on Oct.