An anti-Christian organization filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Department of Veterans Affairs over a Bible displayed as part of a POW/MIA memorial, calling the Bible’s presence an “outrage.”
The Trump administration announced on the National Day of Prayer Thursday its final rule that protects the conscience rights of healthcare workers and other entities.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2019 report on Monday, which found a steep decline in religious freedom in Cuba.
Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is no friend to people of faith, warns Catholic League President Bill Donohue, but rather a “loyal soldier in the secularist war on religion.”
Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, recalled how Chinese Christians were crying upon reception of smuggled bibles.
China has lodged a protest over remarks by the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom criticizing Beijing’s restrictive religion policies.
A jury awarded a Florida hotel dishwasher more than $21 million after determining that the woman’s employer discriminated against her religious beliefs by forcing her to work Sundays and firing her when she did not show up for religious reasons.
A federal trial court in California blocked new Trump administration conscience protections regarding abortion in a rare Sunday decision, reigniting the latest legal battle over part of Obamacare.
President Donald Trump has had as much impact on the third branch of government in two years as most presidents have in two full terms, and the new Senate opens the door for the second half of his first term to be even more significant than the first half.
Lee, a Republican, is blocking confirmation of Chai Feldblum, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the EEOC. Feldblum – a left-wing Democrat – is known as the architect of former President Barack Obama’s LGBT agenda.
A Pakistani court has sentenced two Christians in Punjab to death for the crime of blasphemy, following their arrest in 2015.
The U.S. Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF) has sharply criticized a proposed draft for Cuba’s new constitution for its removal of key references to religious liberty and freedom of conscience.
The persecution of Christians is generally ignored because, unlike Muslims and Jews, Christians have no good word to describe it, said a UK archbishop this weekend.
A federal judge in Texas slighted the Roman Catholic Church in a major case involving abortion and religious liberty on Wednesday, calling the world’s largest Christian church a “sect,” and suggesting that he might not obey the federal appeals court over him, criticizing the judges who voted to reverse his initial order.
During his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh stated that as a general matter, it’s good to think of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause “working together for the concept of freedom of religion in
U.S. Army Chaplain Scott Squires was facing a recommendation he be charged with dereliction of duty after he rescheduled a soldier in a same-sex marriage, which violates the tenets of his Southern Baptist faith, from his own marriage retreat to one led by a chaplain with no such conflict.
Communist officials have replaced two underground Gansu province parish priests who were accused of holding a summer camp for a youth group at their church.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions criticized the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) by name Wednesday as he spoke at the Religious Liberty Summit of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the successful Christian public interest law firm the SPLC designates a “hate group.”
Chinese government agents have demolished a Catholic church in Jinan province, bulldozing it to the ground, despite a government permit to operate legally.
Catholic leaders in India have forcefully denounced a proposed government ban on the sacrament of confession, saying it is unconstitutional and a violation of religious freedom.
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, has denounced the “targeting” of Christian Care Providers that subscribe to a traditional understanding of marriage in a speech at a conference on religious liberty at the Justice Department Monday .
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence excoriated North Korea’s record of human rights violations Thursday, asserting that the nation’s persecution of Christians is the worst on the planet.
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court appointee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been a staunch defender of the rights of Americans, particularly religious freedom, said two prominent Republican representatives.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Vatican Radio Monday that President Trump has made religious freedom a “true priority” for his administration, on the eve of the State Department’s first-ever international summit on religious freedom.
The governor wrote, “This is so broad that licensed professionals would be prohibited from counseling an individual even at the individual’s own request.”
The bishops of England and Wales have urged the UK government to begin publishing an annual religious freedom report similar to that produced each year by the U.S. State Department to help “strengthen the UK’s work in this area.”
“It is a dangerous time to be a person of faith,” said U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Callista Gingrich, Monday in kicking off a one-day symposium on religious liberty in Rome.
In a study released this week, the Pew Research Center revealed that restrictions on religious belief and practice increased around the world for the second year in a row in 2016, with Christians being the group hardest hit.
In a major blow to religious freedom, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that law societies in Canada may deny accreditation to a Christian law school based on its biblical views of sexual behavior.
Chinese government officials used excavators and pickup trucks to demolish the sanctuary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in China’s Henan province Tuesday, a popular pilgrimage site for Catholics since its founding in 1903.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue said Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case was a “smashing victory for religious liberty” and a bruising defeat for “gay bullies.”
In most Muslim-majority nations, “religious liberty is either crushed altogether or it barely exists,” wrote Catholic League president Bill Donohue Monday.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill Friday that will protect private adoption agencies from coercion, discrimination, or punishment as they help orphans find homes with a mom and a dad.
President Donald Trump presided over a National Day of Prayer event in the White House Rose Garden for the second year, pledging at the Thursday morning gathering to protect religious liberty all across America.
In the wake of the release of a new white paper on “religious freedom,” Beijing has ordered bibles and other Christian books removed from online bookstores across China, sparking a wave of complaints.
The premier of the Australian state of New South Wales State has initiated a national discussion on the inviolability of the Catholic “seal of confession” following a Royal Commission recommendation that priests be required to divulge any sexual abuse of children heard in the confessional.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is urging Catholics to press U.S. legislators to pass the Conscience Protection Act, which would ensure that health care personnel and others could not be coerced into participating in actions such as abortion that violate their moral conscience.
President Trump has broken from his personal push to raise the minimum rifle purchase age from 18 years to 21 and chosen instead to hand the decision to a federal commission.
An atheist group is threatening to sue an Ohio town for displaying a mural with an eagle and a Bible verse on the side of a municipal building.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS) has chosen Rachel K. Laser, an abortion-rights and LGBT-rights activist, as its new executive director in an ongoing battle against conservative Christianity.
