Earlier this month, an Indiana appeals court delivered a great victory to two causes that often find themselves in opposition: reproductive freedom and religious freedom. A group of women successfully ...
U.S. blasphemy laws reflect a complex fight for the freedom of religion and speech Getty Images Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Joanna Andreasson When Bridger Lee Jensen opened a spiritual center in Provo, Utah, he contacted city officials to ...
Almost immediately after Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health overturned the federal right to an abortion, more than a dozen states passed legislation effectively banning abortion. Soon thereafter, Jewish ...
Florida lawmakers are debating a bill that would define domestic terrorism and prohibit courts from applying religious law. Critics, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, worry the bill ...
What if society’s laws were based on Biblical principles rather than secular ones? This is the vision of Christian Reconstructionists, a movement that seeks to reshape society using a literal ...
A new database launched Thursday is drawing attention to hundreds of state laws and regulations that legal experts say have flown under the radar and are in need of reexamination following a string of ...
BYU hosted its 31st annual Law and Religion Symposium from Oct. 6-8. The gathering took place in the J. Reuben Clark building, where experts from multiple countries discussed the intersection between ...
In Colorado Springs, three religious organizations are taking legal steps to make sure that a new homeless shelter is built. Their complaint: City residents who have sued the city to block the shelter ...
When Bridger Lee Jensen opened a spiritual center in Provo, Utah, he contacted city officials to let them know the religious group he had founded, Singularism, would be conducting ceremonies involving ...