A nativity scene on the courthouse lawn in Mountain Home, Arkansas, will include a disclaimer after a humanist group complained about the display last year.
A group called Priests for Life says it won’t comply with a federal appeals court ruling on Friday upholding an accommodation that allows religious nonprofits to opt out from providing…
Federal appeals judge Richard Posner of Chicago often garners attention for the opinions he writes, but his decision tossing a rabbi’s suit against Northwestern University may not be getting as…
The death of Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill woman who died Saturday at her Oregon home after taking a lethal dose of barbiturates prescribed by her physician, may forever change…
Pro bono lawyers representing the city of Houston used overly broad language when they subpoenaed sermons by pastors who opposed the city’s equal rights ordinance, Houston Mayor Annise Parker said…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to review a case in which Abercrombie & Fitch didn’t hire a Muslim teen because they said her hijab was inconsistent with the…
Holt v. Hobbs—At issue: Does the prisoner grooming policy of the Arkansas Department of Correction impinge on the religious rights of an inmate as protected by a 2000 federal statute? Photo courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons.
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The Amish religion is a branch of Christianity which adheres to a doctrine of simplicity, non-violence and forgiveness. How then did a breakaway group come to be implicated in the first federal trial which prosecuted religiously motivated hate crimes within the same faith community?
The American Humanist Association says it may sue on behalf of an atheist soldier who wasn’t allowed to re-enlist in the Air Force because he wouldn’t take an oath with…
A federal appeals court has reversed the hate-crime convictions of 16 members of an Amish sect in Ohio accused of cutting the beards and hair of others.
Updated: A Roman Catholic archbishop in Oklahoma City is dropping a lawsuit he filed against a satanist group contending it was in unauthorized possession of a consecrated Eucharistic host. The…