Decades after the rest of New Jersey ended the practice, Bergen County continues to enforce blue laws that ban most retail ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s ...

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years. The Jubilee has roots in the Jewish practice of Sabbath rest every seven days ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearings are set to begin Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee and the Health, ...

Wyoming could soon join 28 other states in enacting a state-level Religious Freedom Restoration Act that would protect ...

Despite a finding by the Québec Superior Court that Bill 21 has a cruel and dehumanizing impact on Muslim women, the law has survived. Now, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear challenges to it.

A federal appeals court case about displaying the Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools is poised to become the next ...

The case has been closely watched by groups promoting religious freedom. “Oklahoma parents and children are better off with more educational choices, not fewer,” said Jim Campbell, chief legal ...

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter ... that protects religious freedom. The case puts Oklahoma ...

National and royal flags fly outside religious sites in Thailand, Turkey, the U.S. and Israel. (Clockwise from top left: Vera Tikhonova, Westend61, Samuel Corum and Paul Souders, all via Getty Images) ...

have issued rulings that expand religious freedoms. The Supreme Court said Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has ties to Alliance Defending Freedom, did not participate in deciding to take up the case.

We asked people in 35 countries about the influence of specific religious texts on their national laws. The texts in question varied by country: For example, adults in predominantly Christian ...