When the “Government of Vietnam” posted two draft religion decrees the first week of June, even ranking staff members of the Government Bureau of Religious Affairs were taken by surprise and encouraged religious leaders to strongly object. The decrees with ancillary documents were posted online for input by government departments and the public. The document dump was 151 pages.
According to a new report, Christians who find it difficult to freely express their beliefs in society due to secular intolerance are practicing “various forms of self-censorship.”
This week, the Ohio House of Representatives approved a resolution asking the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to add Canada to its watch list of countries where religious liberties are threatened.
Virginia’s new governor has signed a bill into law that strengthens the state’s protections for religious freedom by specifying that “religion” includes outward expressions of faith – and not merely inward belief.
A West Virginia School district has agreed to pay $225,000 to end a lawsuit filed by a prominent atheist group over the district's former elective Bible class.
Virginia’s new attorney general is supporting a high school teacher who was fired after he declined to use the personal pronouns preferred by a biologically female student who identifies as male.
A Christian nonprofit ministry won a major court victory Monday when a federal judge blocked two Biden administration rules that require the ministry’s members to pay for or perform gender transition surgeries and procedures.
Church leaders and U.S. officials are condemning the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun in Hong Kong by the national security police on Wednesday.
The annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom shows that about half of the world's population lives in countries where religious freedom violations occur.
The city of Boston violated the free speech rights of a faith-based group when it refused to fly the organization’s Christian flag while approving the flags of numerous other groups, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
