This is the lived reality of millions of people in highly controlling religions, cults, and coercive situations worldwide. Individuals in such situations are physically free to leave and yet feel ...

Louisiana can proceed with a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, according to a federal court ...

New research suggests religious skepticism often softens when faith is encountered through service.

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 ...

Religious freedom, Congress unanimously declared in 1998, “undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.” Presidents of both parties have called it a “fundamental human right,” a ...

This is Religious Freedom Week, during which America's Catholic bishops call on us to pray, reflect and act to promote religious freedom. But it’s also a time to give thanks. As Catholics, we can look ...

After a year in which 8 million Christians faced persecution, the Open Door network claims 3,490 Christians were killed in Nigeria.

Religion is often confused with spirituality. People think that if they are religious, they are spiritual. Spirituality, awakening, Enlightenment, however, is beyond religion. While religion can be ...

The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

Two important developments in education occurred over the last week. One was a sign of the problem we have. The other was a sign of the solution. The sign of the problem, to which hopefully the U.S.

Utah Legislature is examining multiple religious-based education measures — including "belief accommodations" in college courses ...

Texas is home to nearly 650 Islamic nonprofit organizations, more than any other state and roughly 8 percent of all Islamic nonprofits in the United States. The vast majority of these institutions ...