Armenia’s future—and that of its people—grows more fragile by the day, potentially plunging into darkness following security forces’ storming of church premises and arrests of senior church leaders.

The Catholic Churches in Italy and Egypt conflict over allowing gay priests, with the Vatican accepting celibate gay men and Egypt rejecting it.

A state school board in Oklahoma voted to approve what would be the first publicly funded religious school in the United States, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional.