Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Holy Bibles and hymnals rest in the back of a church pew as sunlight filters through stained glass windows. Photo: Aaron Burden / ...

(RNS) — Designating both Pakistan and India as ‘countries of particular concern’ this year would signal that the United States does not tolerate violations of religious freedom, which include attacks ...

When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations last week about religious persecution, he posed that freedom of religion is not a partisan talking point; it is a universal human right. While ...

In recent years, litigation on certain types of religious freedom lawsuits have been practically run of the mill: prayer on school premises, for example, and government funding for students at ...

Religious leaders, professors, scholars and peers meet for the Religious Freedom Annual Review. The meeting was held on June 17, 2025. (Jayden Barney) The Religious Freedom Annual Review was held at ...

When President Obama signed a newly strengthened international religious freedom act, the intention was to protect religious believers around the world. But the act, signed December 16, is being ...

One of the original seven principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association, formed in 1985, is “a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” Diversity is another of our values. The ...

Religious freedom, Congress unanimously declared in 1998, “undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.” Presidents of both parties have called it a “fundamental human right,” a ...

The Provincial legislature of Quebec passed Bill 9, an act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Quebec, into law on Thursday, April 2nd. This significantly expands Quebec's widely criticized ...

FOR SA said no one in the faith sector was arguing in favour of or trying to justify unethical behaviour. “It should go ...

(The Center Square) – Support for religious freedom grew five points from 2020 to 2025, reaching an all-time cumulative high of 71 points, according to Becket’s seventh annual Religious Freedom Index.