Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year around Easter and Passover, millions of viewers gather in their living rooms to watch the 1956 epic The Ten ...

The helpful website, gotquestions.org, has over 10,000 answers to frequently asked Bible questions, such as this one: "Do Christians have to obey the Old Testament law?" After briefly explaining some ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. (OSV News photo/Jason Reed, ...

Why Are the 10 Commandments Important? The commandments are not merely rules, a list of dos and don’ts. They are the foundation to living in right relationship with God and others, so that we might ...

Controversy over the commandments is not new. In more than a dozen early cases, courts generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools. These enactments survived because the ...

For all its spectacle about sociopolitical tyranny, producer-director-narrator Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” (1956) recalls a more threatening spiritual tyranny. Its point? A life of ...

Does posting the Ten Commandments on classroom walls constitute religious instruction that is part of a state-mandated curriculum? That is one of the key questions in a debate percolating in state ...

An updated version of this article was published on Dec. 5, 2025. Read it here. As disputes rage on over religion’s place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a ...

Texas wants students to see the Ten Commandments. Read literally, the sacred text poses some awkward questions for the law requiring them.