"It’s abhorrently wrong that I was arrested, brought into cells, searched and humiliated by police simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind," Vaughan-Spruce said.
The percentage of Christians in the United States is projected to decrease to between 35% and 54% by 2070, while the percentage of religiously unaffiliated individuals is expected to increase to between 34% and 52%, according to the Pew Research Center's hypothetical scenarios about the future of religion in the country.
The number of documented attacks on churches has steadily increased in recent months and years, with a dramatic uptick in 2022 in abortion-related vandalism related to the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a landmark new report.
At least 420 acts of hostility against churches occurred in the United States over the past five years, while 57 of those hostile acts between January and September 2022 have been related to abortion, an analysis suggests.
A Christian teacher who was forced to resign for declining to use the preferred names of trans-identifying students is suing the school district, claiming it violated her free speech and religious liberty rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Americans who identify as religiously unaffiliated appear to be slowing in their population growth, according to a recent analysis from the prominent polling organization Gallup.
Muhammad Mokaev, a surging UFC flyweight prospect with a perfect MMA record of 10-0, questioned a viral video that shows a drag queen twerking and dancing inside a Christian church.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed a bill that extends marriage rights to same-sex couples across the United States, making it the law of the land. The law is a repeal of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman.
