Religion & Faith

Cindy Clemishire accused the megachurch and Robert Morris of defaming her and downplaying the abuse from Morris when she came forward. A Dallas appeals court dismissed the lawsuit.

Diego Fuller is the lead pastor at Journey Fort Worth Church. He was arrested last Sept. 1 on a sexual assault charge and indicted March 26 with an additional charge of child grooming.

Events in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania honored those lost 25 years ago on Sept. 11, at a time when Americans are divided about the meaning and legacy of the terrorist attacks.

Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.

The Texas State Board of Education approved an updated social studies curriculum that many Muslims says discriminates against them and ignores Islam’s scientific and cultural contributions made through history.

The State Board Education is expected to give final approval Friday to controversial social studies and history curricula that all Texas high school students must learn. Lessons depict Islam as a violent religion and Christianity as an essential cornerstone of the nation.

The preliminary votes occurred after hours of debate Monday and Tuesday, with final decisions expected Friday.

Islamic scholars and Muslim Texans say fear and political opportunism distort the meaning of sharia.

Final debates on proposed changes will come after years of deliberations about race and religion in the classroom.

A Dallas appellate court has reversed a trial court's decision that previously denied motions to dismiss Gateway Church and some church elders from a defamation lawsuit from the woman Morris sexually abused when she was a child.

Civil rights advocates have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring the state's public schools to display the Ten Commandments. Monday's petition tees up a case that could set a new national standard for the limits of religious expression in classrooms. Posters with the Ten Commandments began going up almost a year ago in classrooms across Texas, a state that educates about 5.5 million students. An appeals court earlier this year cleared the way for the Texas law and one in Louisiana, and similar laws have been passed in Arkansas and Alabama.

The Horizon Texas Conference sued Highland Park United Methodist Church, after it says the church failed to make changes.