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.
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.
The State Department has now designated 12 “Countries of Particular Concern” and placed four more on a “Special Watch List” under the International Religious Freedom Act “for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”
Attorney Kristen Waggoner said Justice Amy Coney Barrett "identified the real issue" in web designer Lorie Smith's Supreme Court case over Smith's refusal to create a wedding website for an LGBT couple.
