WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court in a trio of rulings expected in the coming weeks appears inclined to extend its trend of taking an expansive view of religious rights while ...

Less remarked upon—though just as historic—is another precedent he quietly overturned: Francis was also the first pope in modern history to come from any religious order. For 167 years before ...

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Jason Riley about his new book. President Trump wants to expand school-choice programs nationwide. He says they empower parents, enhance competition ...

SINGAPORE - The racial and religious harmony Singapore enjoys did not happen automatically but is the result of persistent hard work, especially by religious leaders. Speaking on May 4 at a ...

(RNS) — President Donald Trump has appointed evangelical allies and a pair of high-profile Catholic clergy to join other faith leaders on a National Commission on Religious Liberty. (RNS ...

Dozens of school choice advocates gathered outside the Supreme Court Wednesday as justices weighed whether public funds could go directly to religious charter schools. The protesters rallied and ...

The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in a case about whether the state of Wisconsin can deny a religious organization an exemption to its unemployment scheme because its serves people who ...

On March 25, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) held a launch event for its annual report. The event, held in a Senate office building on Capitol Hill, featured 10 current ...

A religious TV channel has been fined £150,000 after one of its programmes claimed a miracle water product could cure cancer, Ofcom has said. Two episodes of The Word Network's Peter Popoff ...

(Earlier this year, for example, he asked whether our current and decades-long “wave of secularization” might have crested, giving way to a religious resurgence.) “Believe” is different ...

Natalie Venegas is a Weekend Reporter at Newsweek based in New York. Her focus is reporting on education, social justice issues, healthcare, crime and politics while specializing on marginalized ...