Martha Patricia Molina, a Nicaraguan lawyer and Catholic researcher, urged the U.S. Commission on International Religious ...

Lawmakers filed bills in the 2026 legislative session that may affect how laws interpret the First Amendment's freedom of ...

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is joined by Interfaith Alliance colleagues Alyssa Klein and Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons ...

Earlier this month, an Indiana appeals court delivered a great victory to two causes that often find themselves in opposition: reproductive freedom and religious freedom. A group of women successfully ...

We are witnessing the emergence of an unstated yet court-sanctioned right that makes no appearance in the Constitution and yet seems to trump the First Amendment at every turn: the right to not be ...

U.S. blasphemy laws reflect a complex fight for the freedom of religion and speech Getty Images Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan ...

Here are a few definitions and viewpoints about “religious freedom” (freedom of religion): Oxford Learner's Dictionary: The right to choose which religion to belong to, or to belong to no religion.

(The Conversation) — Religious freedom has grown more important in US foreign policy – but does that come at the expense of promoting other human rights? Underlying many debates about how courts and ...

Earlier this month, an important regional summit about International Religious Freedom took place in Taipei, Taiwan. Holding the summit there sent a powerful message; Taiwan exists in the shadow of ...

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 ...

With the passage of a new security law in 2020, the Chinese government gained more power to suppress pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which the regime viewed as a direct threat to its power.

The United States Supreme Court will begin its October term in less than a week — and several lawsuits related to the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom could potentially land on the ...