Richard Cohen, the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), has reiterated his criticism of conservative groups by claiming that organizations like the Family Research Council (FRC) are "more dangerous" than the Ku Klux Klan.
A pastor who owns a monument company in North Carolina has apologized for removing the grave marker of a 5-year-old boy over a financial dispute with the parents.
North Carolina's Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has issued a consent decree that allows citizens to use restrooms that correspond to their gender identity rather than their biological sex as part of a settlement with pro-LGBT groups to resolve the lawsuit over the state's controversial bathroom law.
An appeals court has temporarily halted a federal judge's order to allow an undocumented 17-year-old girl in the government's custody to have an abortion.
A federal appeals court has ruled that the cross-shaped World War I Veterans Memorial that was erected in Bladensburg Park in Maryland back in the 1920s is unconstitutional.
A private Christian university in Idaho has decided to drop "Crusaders" as its nickname and mascot due to concerns about its association with "violence and destruction."
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a group that advocates for the separation of church and state, has sent letters to judges in Oklahoma this week to warn them about "religious coercion" that allegedly takes place at a controversial Christian work camp.
A majority of Americans, including a third of white evangelicals, believe that it is possible to be good without belief in God, according to a new report from Pew Research Center.
Prominent Christian leaders such as Beth Moore and Kay Warren have joined thousands of people who are now sharing their stories of sexual abuse and harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in Hollywood.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has approved a legislation that would allow state residents to choose a third option on their birth certificates and driver's licenses to match their gender identity.
A federal appeals court has blocked a legislation that would have prevented Planned Parenthood from providing abortions in Arkansas.
Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice-elect Maggie Ellis has announced plans to overturn a rule protecting judges who decline to officiate same-sex weddings because of their religious beliefs.
A law that came into effect this year gives the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) increased powers to restrict religious practice even as several Christians remain imprisoned for carrying out their ministries, according to an advocacy group’s new report. In the past year freedom of religion in China has deteriorated with the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress coming into effect on July1.
Several pastors affiliated with the Calvary Chapel movement have publicly criticized Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s affirmation of women serving as pastors, following an announcement by Char Brodersen at the church that once served as the movement’s flagship congregation. The Calvary Chapel Association (CCA), through its Heartland Regional Team, reaffirmed its opposition to appointing women as pastors or elders.
A 20-year-old Egyptian Christian was reportedly killed by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Libya after resisting repeated demands to abandon his Christian faith and embrace Islam while in captivity. Milad Malak, a Coptic Christian, was the only Christian among a group of Egyptian workers abducted by ISIS fighters, according to Open Doors, which cited accounts from two Muslim companions who were later released.
Three students were killed and six others injured when Myanmar's military launched an airstrike and drone assault on a Christian Bible school in Karen State. The attack occurred Tuesday in Day Bu Noh village in Hpapun District, an area largely populated by Christian Karen communities. Military aircraft reportedly dropped bombs before armed drones struck the village, with one exploding directly above the Bible school.