A new database launched Thursday is drawing attention to hundreds of state laws and regulations that legal experts say have flown under the radar and are in need of reexamination following a string of ...

The federal government’s exemption for quoting religious texts in its proposed hate speech law has attracted criticism — it risks creating confusion, overreach and the unedifying prospect of secular ...

Religious leaders sharply rejected any federal efforts to impose new laws or regulations on them, saying in a formal report to Sen. Charles Grassley that more effective administration of today’s rules ...

Despite clear Supreme Court rulings, religious discrimination continues to infect government funding across the country. Hundreds of laws and regulations—at the local, state, and federal levels—shut ...

Attorney General Keith Ellison's selective enforcement pattern emerges as he excuses mob conduct at St. Paul's Cities Church during worship services.

Lawmakers in Georgia are advancing a bill designed to provide religious individuals and institutions even greater protection from laws that they say violate their beliefs, such as a mandate that ...

For years, Jewish organizations have fought for abortion access as a matter of religious freedom. Jewish law is clear: Life begins at first breath, not fertilization. Until that moment, a pregnancy is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is highlighting concerns over laws against blasphemy and apostasy that limit religious freedom in Muslim and other nations where they are on the books. The ...

Last year, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage across the United States, and members of the LGBT community and their allies celebrated nationwide. The nation seemed to be at its proudest just in ...

A broad of coalition of Australia's most influential religious leaders have urged the prime minister to scrap Labor's ...

Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has written to the Australian National Imams Council to tamp down concerns of unintended ...