Tag: Religious freedom
Religious freedom in nation’s schools examined by Religious Liberty Commission
WASHINGTON -- The third meeting of the Department of Justice's Religious Liberty Commission Sept. 29 examined a range of religious liberty issues related to...
Department of Education to issue guidance on protecting prayer in public...
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Education will issue new guidance "protecting the right to prayer" in public schools, President Donald Trump said Sept. 8...
Land transfer including Indigenous sacred site blocked again; Trump plans appeal
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court temporarily blocked Aug. 18 a federal land transfer to a copper mining giant that would lead to the...
One dead and three abducted in attack on Nigerian seminary: ‘It...
AUCHI, Nigeria -- In Nigeria's Edo state, gunmen stormed Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in the Diocese of Auchi the night of July 10, killing...
New Washington state law does not include clergy-penitent exception: ‘Premised on...
A contested Washington state law that would require priests to violate the seal of confession to report abuse "represents an egregious violation of the...
21-year-old seminarian Andrew Peter kidnapped and murdered in Nigeria: ‘Life has...
A young seminarian has become the latest victim of killings in Nigeria, the West African country where attack and kidnapping of Catholic clergy is...
A Door of Hope files federal lawsuit challenging signage required by...
A Delaware crisis pregnancy center is challenging a new state law in federal court, contending the statute is an infringement on its free speech...
Central American bishops call for prayers as Nicaragua slides deeper into...
BUENOS AIRES -- In a moving letter, Pope Francis expressed his closeness with the people of Nicaragua as Central American bishops called for a...
Russia’s ‘Kremlin chokehold’ continues with ban of religious websites that provide...
Russia's latest blockage of Western religious websites and social media accounts tightens the Kremlin's chokehold on Russian residents' information access, the editor of a...
Caritas and 14 non-governmental groups stripped of legal status in Nicaragua;...
Nicaragua has revoked the legal status of the Caritas chapter in the Diocese of Matagalpa and continued arresting priests and laity there, delivering another...