California Gov. Jerry Brown has struck down a legislation that would have prohibited religious workers from disciplining or firing employees who seek abortions, use birth control or make other reproductive health decisions they disagree with.
U.S. Air Force officials have reportedly suspended a highly-decorated colonel for refusing to sign an unofficial document affirming the same-sex marriage of a retiring subordinate.
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an appeal over the removal of a Ten Commandments display on the lawn outside the city hall in Bloomfield, New Mexico.
Newsweek has drawn criticism for calling the Family Research Council (FRC) a hate group in a story about President Donald Trump attending the organization's Values Voters Summit in Washington D.C.
Four Air Force service members have been arrested for spray-painting Satanic symbols on a historic rural church in South Carolina late last month.
Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, has revealed that he recently received a strange order, asking him to design and bake a cake celebrating the Satan's birthday.
Tullian Tchividjian, the grandson of famed evangelist Billy Graham, has expressed his regret for being involved in an adultery scandal two years ago that led to his separation from his wife.
President Donald Trump has reiterated his promise to protect America's religious heritage "like you have never seen before," as he addressed the attendees of the Value Voters Summit in Washington D.C. on Friday.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under the administration of President Donald Trump, has released a draft of a new strategic plan that declares in its introduction that human life begins at conception.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that was filed against a U.S. House Chaplain who refused to allow an atheist to perform an invocation in Congress.
National Catholic Committee on Scouting has said that it will comply with the new membership policy of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to allow girls to join its ranks.
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.