The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

The murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak in Southampton has reignited debate in the United Kingdom over the legal right of Sikhs ...

(RNS) — President Donald Trump, speaking to a sprawling crowd at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday (Feb. 5), returned to his personal tradition of using the bipartisan convening as ...

For much of the last decade, the “religious liberty” debate was one of the most polarizing political fights in Georgia. Companies threatened boycotts. Protesters flooded the Capitol. Lawmakers risked ...

Religious exemptions have risen over decades in Massachusetts. Medical exemptions that bypass immunization have fallen in the state. None of the major religions have mandates against vaccination, ...

A small operation that's run out of a church in East Bank is making a big difference for families across the state.While its hub is in Kanawha County, Urgent Ca Body found in Elk River in Charleston, ...

A Palakkad gym's plan to offer gender-segregated, music-free fitness spaces for Muslims has sparked nationwide debate.

An old lawsuit filed by Jehovah’s Witnesses challenging the Japanese government’s child abuse guidelines has kicked off a fresh debate on how far the state can go in regulating family life, especially ...

In this week's "It's Debatable" segment, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether privately run religious schools can be excluded from a state’s charter school program solely because they are ...

A Canadian hate speech bill is drawing backlash from critics who warn it could chill religious speech and expose some people to prosecution for quoting the Bible. Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, ...