religious freedom

A British nurse who was fired from a hospital for refusing to take off or conceal her cross necklace has filed a lawsuit against her former place of employment.

When creative professionals like Lorie Smith and Jack Phillips decline a job because it violates their deeply held beliefs, it’s about the message, not the person.

Actor and former model Antonio Sabato Jr., who will be starring in the fourth installment of the God's Not Dead films, is encouraging Christians to trust in Jesus Christ amid recent threats to religious liberty.

A high school football coach who brought legal action after he was fired for praying at the 50-yard-line following football games is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved in his case.

On Wednesday, a 37-year-old Texas man on death row won a reprieve on his execution after he claimed that the Lone Star state was violating his religious freedom by refusing to let his pastor lay hands on him during his execution.

The court has shown a repeated willingness to defend Christian institutions, pastors, and religious organizations who hold to their deeply held beliefs. But like in the case of florist Barronelle Stutzman, the court has demonstrated that religious freedom is being lost, not by organizations and people in pastoral roles, but in the rights of parishioners and individuals to order their public lives according to their beliefs, especially in the world of commerce.

An American evangelist who was recently arrested in London for preaching against homosexuality is warning the church of growing religious persecution in the UK.

To be a Christian and to hold to Christian conviction about what is true about the nature and person of Jesus Christ, and about the place of Christian conviction in the public square, is to be out of step with the larger culture. From the very beginning, Christians have faced these challenges. They have had to choose between their well-being and their convictions.

A federal court has upheld a Colorado anti-discrimination law that can force a Christian web designer who opposes same-sex marriage to create a website for a same-sex wedding.

Last week, a judge ruled in favor of Virginia's anti-discrimination law protecting LGBT people after a group of churches, schools and a pro-life pregnancy center argued that the law would force them to compromise their religious beliefs.