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Three Republican judges heard oral arguments Wednesday after a lower court blocked Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to ...

A journalist for Texas Monthly shares the story of a Catholic Church running a public school in a small town southeast of Waco decades ago.

On Sunday, January 26, Marco Carmiño set out to pick up a piano before his scheduled performance at the 5 p.m. Spanish Mass ...

Seguin softball’s senior second baseman Camryn Rios is taking her big bat and rock solid fielding to the next level after ...

Past efforts to allow more religion in public schools have been hamstrung by legal challenges. But those on the religious ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

(Seguin) — A couple of best friends will be exercising the First Amendment of freedom of speech this Saturday in downtown Seguin. Arianna Hernandez and Anahi Hernandez say they plan to host a peaceful ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of ...