When the Supreme Court hears arguments in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, Colorado will defend antidiscrimination laws for the fourth time in 10 years.
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The fight against Islamism is the rationale behind Marine Le Pen’s RN party, but research data suggests that head-covering in keeping with Islamic tradition is not politically motivated.
After 9/11, suspicion of Islam hardened into an assumption in Texas that Muslim identity itself signals danger, writes a scholar of constitutional law.
New data from a global rights-tracking project shows the country had large declines in 2025 on 8 of the 9 civil and political rights it measures.
Two political scientists explain why Christian nationalist beliefs endure.
American churches could not rely on the state for financial support. Private philanthropy helped them survive – and shaped the country’s religious diversity today.
Québec’s Bill 9 demands the public sphere be free of visible religion, even when expressions of religion take are obligations its adherents cannot set aside.
The Pentagon recategorized Native religions as ‘other.’ A scholar of Native American and Indigenous Studies explains the implications of that change.
The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission argues that religious freedom is under attack and blames the ‘wall of separation’ between church and state.
We are living in a world backed by technology that seems to have a spiritual project of its own. Are the fears of the Pope’s AI-critical encyclical founded?
Landor v. Louisiana highlights the religious rights of the nearly 2 million people imprisoned in the US – and how challenging it can be to protect those rights.
Latter-day Saints have long valued the US Constitution’s promise of religious freedom – but the church has also tested its boundaries.
American courts have legislated the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether it’s constitutional depends on the aims of teachers’ lessons.
While religious minorities have often faced hostility, many Americans have long believed in religious liberty and a more inclusive society, writes a historian of American religion.
For Madison, religious freedom was not a tool for political domination. Rather, he saw it as a constitutional safeguard for liberty and democracy.
The phrase ‘separation of church and state’ dates back to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation.
Po'pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the United States.
Sebastian Castellio penned one of the first arguments for religious freedom – but it went unheeded for centuries.
Nigeria needs a decentralised and coordinated security system.
Landor v. Louisiana, one of this year’s highest-profile religious freedom cases, underscores how complex legal protections for free exercise are in the US today.
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