Religion & Faith

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.

Campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Paxton says he was “delivered by God” to protect Texas from leftists. Talarico’s focus: “You can’t love God and hate other people.”

The lawsuit, which claimed Gateway Church mishandled millions of dollars in church donations, was dismissed last month. The former church members who filed the suit are asking that decision to be appealed, according to a July 17 court filing.

Frisco is getting a new mosque, Hindu temple and Jain temple — and many immigrants say that's led to new hostility from some of their neighbors.

A Texas Monthly writer has been investigating sexual abuse allegations in the Southern Baptist Convention for almost ten years.