YUKORI-CHIRCHIK, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan continues punishing people exercising the right to freedom of religion or belief without state permission. In one incident, police and the
Gallup Daily asked more than 350,000 adults in the U.S. and District of Columbia if religion was an important part of their daily life and
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — With new state censorship regulations for almost all religious literature and objects produced in or imported into Kazakhstan now in force, only
NAPA, California — In an unprecedented act of defiance, a California branch of the Presbyterian Church (USA) (PCUSA) refused a ruling from a church court
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Heritage Keepers, an abstinence-based sex education curriculum offered by Heritage Community Services in Charleston, S.C., has been approved by the U.S. Department
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Dozens of Catholic universities, dioceses and other institutions filed lawsuits in courts around the country May 21 in a coordinated effort,
JIJIGA, Ethiopia — His wife died shortly before he was falsely accused of desecrating the Quran, and by the time he was released from prison
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The election of a hard-line Islamic governor in Indonesia’s Aceh Province in April appears to have opened the way for a crackdown
