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 ...

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 an ...

Renewed calls to incorporate Amazigh into Friday and Eid sermons in Morocco have reignited debate over the effectiveness of religious communication and its ability to reach the country’s diverse ...

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, ...

(The Conversation) — The phrase ‘separation of church and state’ dates back to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation. One of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the Texas law ...

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 ...