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Religious liberty has become a wedge issue among many conservative religionists and politicians. President Donald Trump and Franklin Graham, Billy's hard-right preacher son, are among those raising ...

All Jehovah’s Witnesses lay claim to draft exemption on the ground that they are ministers. Last week the U.S. Supreme court backed up one of them in a 6-to-3 decision. What applied to George Lewis ...

The DeSantis administration, in encouraging introduction of religious chaplains into Florida’s public schools, has published a definition of “religion” that appears to exclude world faiths with ...

A nation dedicated to gathering in the Jews of the world, Israel has never been able to answer a question basic to its existence: What is a Jew? Does a Jew become Jewish by birth, or by religious ...

Millions of Americans have changed their religion over the course of their lifetimes, switching from one religion to another, leaving religion altogether, or choosing to identify with a religion after ...

NATIONWIDE — LEADERS OF RELIGIOUS NONPROFITS are closely watching a case unfolding in the Wisconsin State Supreme Court that involves a question on whether Catholic Charities’ care for the poor and ...

The anti-abortion rights movement is largely faith based. Catholics and evangelical Christians argue that life begins at conception, and that fetuses have souls. On those grounds, they want to prevent ...