Religious freedom

A court in Siberia sentenced mother and son Valentina Baranovskaya and Roman Baranovsky to two years and six years respectively.

President Biden has nominated a deeply unqualified man with a long history of antagonism toward people of faith. Becerra has consistently used his power to punish political opponents in pursuit of an ideological agenda.

Biden's policies promise violence against our most vulnerable citizens and a government that increasingly requires uniformity of thought, using censorship and coercion to achieve those goals.

At the outset of 2021, few Americans understand the disturbing degree to which Christians and Uighur Muslims in China are persecuted.

Despite challenges, courts have routinely noted the Constitution's approval of legislative prayers—by chaplains, volunteers and even elected officials.

Local Mayor Craig Kavanagh defended the approval, saying: "Just because we voted yes doesn't mean we're racist."

A group opposing the decision said the city council "allowed fear of litigation to dictate their decision."

Many Christians in Nigeria are approaching this Christmas with a sense of dread, as traveling to see loved ones over the holidays will make them especially vulnerable targets for brazen kidnapping and murder.

Kentucky is now ground zero in the seemingly endless struggle to protect religious liberty from government overreach during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After almost a year of state governments being given carte blanche authority, it was time to remind governors like Cuomo that the Constitution, and specifically the First Amendment, hadn't been repealed.

America promises its citizens in the First Amendment to the Constitution that they will always be free to publicly and privately exercise their religious beliefs.

Sometimes the greatest compliment a devotee can pay a maestro is applying that maestro's teachings to correct his biggest mistake.

The reproductive healthcare nonprofit shared a tweet from five years ago, where the senator referred to birth control as "abortion-inducing drugs," which he also did in Wednesday's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

No masks or social distancing were in observance at the 9,000-person event, nor did its organizer tell the city about its plans.

New York's edict pits religious conscience against civic responsibility. That is not supposed to happen in America.

We must not only make the most of this most cherished freedom to live out our faith, but we must also act—and vote—to support the flourishing of religious freedom in America.

Now more than ever, we need as many highly successful adoption and foster care providers caring for children as possible—providers like CSS. Yet Philadelphia wants to end all those benefits. How does that help kids?

Everyone speaking up for everyone, both inside and outside their belief system, maximizes the global impact of our efforts.

The very provision that was designed to keep religious prejudice out of the Constitution has been reinterpreted in terms that enforce such prejudice, giving the Constitution's religious liberty a slant against orthodoxy.

The woman was attending a public hearing about an officer-involved shooting at the time of the alleged incident, according to the lawsuit.

The travesty of Xinjiang focuses a lot of attention on China, but we must not forget that Russia is also a notorious infringer of human rights and civil liberties.

The complaint, filed last week in Putnam County Common Pleas Court, responds to Ohio Department of Health Interim Director Lance Himes' order signed August 13.

Reverend Nathan Empsall of Faithful America said President Donald Trump has "distorted" the Gospel message of Christianity to serve a "hateful, right-wing agenda."

The lockdowns have gone on long enough. The church must meet.

Tolerance is a two-way street.

The First Amendment does not disappear during a pandemic.

First Liberty Institute President, CEO and Chief Counsel Kelly Shackelford debates former White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships Director Melissa Rogers.

Americans should not trade the system that has served us so well.

The duty to protect religious liberty falls to like-minded citizens all across the country.

A court in the Ivanovo Region convicted Yevgeniy Spirin, 34, on charges related to extremism. Jehovah's Witnesses have been banned in Russia since 2017.