An 11-year, 24/7 vigil at a Roman Catholic church outside Boston may be coming to an end, if Massachusetts appeals courts see the case the same way as the Archdiocese…
A defendant appearing before a North Carolina judge was detained for nearly three hours last week when he refused to remove his Voodoo beads or tuck them into his shirt…
The U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued the United Parcel Service for allegedly violating the religious rights of workers and job applicants whose appearance violates company policy.
Parishioners at the First Church of Cannabis in Indianapolis left their pot at home when they gathered for a service on Wednesday, the same day that Indiana’s new religious freedom…
A federal appeals court has given a green light to a former inmate’s First Amendment complaint over being required to work with pork as part of his job assignment in…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says in a legal opinion that government employees may refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses if doing so violates their sincerely held religious beliefs.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled for an Arizona pastor and his church in a challenge to an ordinance that imposed more stringent restrictions on temporary signs directing the public…
A Michigan bill signed by the governor on Thursday allows private adoption agencies with state contracts to refuse to place children with families based on sincerely held religious beliefs.
Some court officials in North Carolina can refuse to perform marriages based on a sincerely held religious objection, according to a new law passed on Thursday.
The family of a 17-year-old car crash victim had no right to be notified that his brain had been removed during an autopsy, New York’s highest court has held.
Officials say a Boston man who volunteered for combat service in Israel’s army won’t be put behind bars for eating a non-kosher sandwich after all, following an international kerfuffle over…
A Muslim teen turned down for a job at Abercrombie & Fitch because of her hijab didn’t have to show the clothes store had actual knowledge of her need for…
A Massachusetts judge has ruled that protesters who participated in an 11-year vigil at their shuttered church are trespassers who must leave by May 29.