As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act that was signed into law by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964, a lesser known Civil Rights Act was signed into a law almost 100 years before, in 1866.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Hobby Lobby, an Alabama-based Catholic television network was given relief from the federal government's "preventive services" mandate.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a group suing California for its recently passed state ban on sexual orientation change therapy for youth struggling with same-sex attraction.
The U.S. Supreme Court's Monday decision allowing owners of closely held for-profit corporations with certain religious convictions to opt-out of parts of the "Obamacare" birth-control mandate was a win for religious freedom, some Christian leaders h..
An effort to repeal a controversial anti-discrimination ordinance in Texas that purportedly would allow men to use women's bathrooms has until Thursday to garner enough signatures to be considered or put to a vote on the November ballot.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby Inc., stating that corporations can refuse to provide abortion-inducing drugs on the basis of religious objection.
A South Carolina school board is considering a return to a prayer policy similar to Town of Greece, New York after the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of sectarian prayers at public meetings.
A petition demanding that personnel in the United States Armed Forces respect the religious freedom of their cadets garnered over 100,000 signatures and was sent to the Air Force Academy in Colorado earlier this week.
A decision by a United Methodist Church appeals committee that reinstated a pastor defrocked for officiating a same-sex wedding might be appealed.
A magistrate judge has ruled that a New York public school's removal of Christian items from a science teacher's classroom was legal.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a law in Massachusetts creating abortion clinic buffer zones for pro-life demonstrators was unconstitutional.
The president of the Washington, DC-based Family Research Council has met with the Sudanese Ambassador to the United States over the effort to free a woman detained in Sudan over allegations of apostasy.
A lawyer involved in a major church and state Supreme Court case has said that the decision may change how the Court interprets religious expression in the public sphere.
A United Methodist Church pastor defrocked for officiating his son's same-sex marriage has had his clergy credentials reinstated by a church court on appeal.
An Egyptian court has sentenced a Christian journalist who was once Muslim to five years in prison on the allegation of "sectarian strife."
Former Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano accepted the head coaching position with the Indianapolis Colts in 2012; but not long after his first season, he was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia and was hospitalized for treat..
A church in Arizona facing the possibility of foreclosure due to owing money on a tax it claims was illegal, has raised about $68,000 to remain open.
A private academic institution based in Colorado was granted an injunction from the Department of Health and Human Services' "preventive services" mandate.
Roman Catholic officials have expressed concern over the pending executive order by President Barack Obama intending to end sexual orientation workplace discrimination for businesses with federal contracts.