religious freedom

A Massachusetts school board violated state law and the U.S. Constitution by refusing to allow a new private Christian school to open due in part to the school’s religious beliefs about sexuality and evolution, a legal group alleges.

A new California law that requires doctors to participate in physician-assisted suicide is being challenged by a coalition of Christian medical professionals who claim it violates their free speech and religious liberty rights.

A Texas college has decided that a Christian student organization may require its leaders to have specific beliefs in order to hold top roles in the organization.

On Wednesday, a state judge ruled that an Illinois county must pay more than $370,000 in attorney’s fees for requiring a Christian nurse to refer women for abortions and provide abortifacient contraceptives.

A British Christian doctor who was fired for refusing to use the preferred pronouns of transgender patients has filed an appeal, saying his case “affects everyone” who is “concerned by compelled speech” and “transgender ideology.”

Churchgoers of an Australian congregation are expressing outrage after police interrupted a service last week to ensure parishioners were wearing masks as required by local law.

A Tennessee-based health care provider will pay $75,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit involving an Apostolic Pentecostal nurse who wanted to wear a “scrub skirt” to work. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the company denied the nurse’s right to religious accommodation.

An employee for a delivery service in Florida who was fired after he refused to work a Sunday shift has won an anti-discrimination case against his former employer. The employer is set to pay $50,000 in relief.

A Michigan high school student who was allegedly suspended for calling homosexuality a “sin” and for failing to report his classmates’ inappropriate jokes filed a federal lawsuit last week, claiming the school’s actions violated his constitutional rights.

The eyes of the world may be on Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but the head of a religious liberty watchdog says China's persecution of Christians is nevertheless escalating.