For Spain’s Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz, in Don Juan’s famous line, hell is a city much like Seville. In his terrible-tempered way, Segura has borne down on the gay, fun-loving people of his Seville ...

The proposed constitutional amendment gives legal form to the principle of “religious liberty” which is embodied in a 42-page document. Catholicism is the only recognized religion in Spain now. The ...

In Spain, Bishop Herrera of Málaga has been viewed by politicians and conservative fellow prelates with disapproval and alarm. But today, tall, balding Bishop Herrera, 62, who runs a new social school ...

ESTEPONA, Spain Silence falls on the beach in the former fishing village of Estepona as the sun sets over Spain’s southern coast. Barefoot men in white shirts carry a seven-foot statue of the Virgen ...

Pope Benedict's visit to Spain this weekend highlighted the sharp divisions between church and state in Spain. The pope, who was attending a Catholic conference on the family, believes the institution ...

The International Center for Law and Religion Studies is a global academic leader in the field of religious freedom. Founded in 2000, the center is part of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham ...

The New York Times predicted today that a statute of religious liberty might be enacted this year in Spain, giving more religious freedom to Spanish Protestants and Jews. The prediction was based on a ...

A Spanish priest who was facing three years in prison for making critical remarks about radical Islam nearly a decade ago has been acquitted, as concerns about the state of free speech and freedom of ...

Celebrated through religious processions and festivities leading up to Easter Sunday, Semana Santa, the holiest week in the Spanish calendar, has begun. This week-long honouring of Jesus is “the most ...

On Easter Sunday five years ago, Pierce Todd Withers attended the holiest of Christian celebratory masses at the famed Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. For the faithful, the ...

A one-line statement from the Vatican said Leo had accepted the resignation of Cádiz Bishop Rafael Zornoza, 76.