The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, ...

“Catholics pray for the dead so they may attain the light, eternal life with our Lord Jesus Christ,” said Father Jean Henri Kouamé Djé, a priest from the Archdiocese of Abidjan in Ivory ...

The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees flocked to rivers and bodies of water across India to pray to the sun god as part of the Chhath festival this week. In Noida, on the ...

Not far from downtown, at Washington National Cathedral, some 300 people had stopped by to pray during an Election Day vigil before the cathedral’s clergy, with other Christian, Jewish and ...

Schneider thanked Healey, Tutwiler, and Spilka, as well as others who “publicly voiced their opposition to removing our only statewide standard for public high school graduation.” ...

The measure, which does not eliminate the administration of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam, but rather its role as a graduation requirement ... the National Parents ...

Public high school students in Massachusetts can now ... to end the use of the controversial standardized tests as a graduation requirement. The Associated Press called the race just before ...

Committee for High Standards Not High Stakes led the campaign in support of the initiative ... The MTA stated, "Massachusetts residents are ready to join the vast majority of states that have scrapped ...

State education officials first proposed dropping the Regents requirement and other changes to high school graduation measures in June. Their plan was based on a series of recommendations made by ...

Our district continues to demonstrate excellence in academic performance, particularly in graduation rates and ... preparing students for life after high school. GCS students outperformed their ...

State assessments for high school graduation are becoming less common, Exstrom says, “it is highly unusual that you would put to a vote of the general public whether or not you should have a ...