The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

(RNS) — President Donald Trump, speaking to a sprawling crowd at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday (Feb. 5), returned to his personal tradition of using the bipartisan convening as ...

Religious freedom is drawing renewed global and domestic attention as advocacy networks, courts and faith leaders take significant actions. Christian ministry CEOs launched a joint prayer initiative ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...

Conservative radio host Chris Krok plans to hand out Bibles outside Wylie East High School after a Muslim outreach group ...

(The Conversation) — The phrase ‘separation of church and state’ dates back to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation. One of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the Texas law ...

An old lawsuit filed by Jehovah’s Witnesses challenging the Japanese government’s child abuse guidelines has kicked off a fresh debate on how far the state can go in regulating family life, especially ...

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, debates about religious freedom continue to occupy the center of American public life. Since taking office for a ...

Harvard has ramped up its interfaith programming in recent months, as administrators, chaplains, and faculty seek to strengthen religious literacy across campus amid growing political debate rooted in ...