On Thursday, Jan. 16, President Joe Biden will perform one of his last acts in office by issuing a decree extolling the importance of religious freedom throughout our nation's history. For many ...

Oct. 27 is International Religious Freedom Day, an opportunity for the United States to remember the millions persecuted for their faith around the world and recommit to advancing religious freedom ...

Editor’s Note: Law professor Helen Alvaré delivered remarks during a panel presented by Organization of American States (OAS) on Oct. 21, 2024, ahead of International Religious Freedom Day. Her ...

Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Thomas Jefferson’s resume is hard to beat. At 23, he was serving in the ...

Today is Religious Freedom Day, proclaimed by President Obama as it was by many presidents before him. The date is chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the passage, on January 16, 1786, of the ...

Religious freedom, Congress unanimously declared in 1998, “undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.” Presidents of both parties have called it a “fundamental human right,” a ...

The chairmen of the U.S. bishops' committees on international policy and religious liberty are calling attention to the repression and persecution of religion as being detrimental to peace. "Religious ...

With Kim Davis and representatives of the Little Sisters of the Poor both trotted out as as GOP guests at President Obama’s state of the union speech, it’s clear that “religious freedom” is here to ...

When Americans consider religious liberty, we often think of the First Amendment and related federal laws, but much of the responsibility to safeguard this freedom falls to individual states. Recent ...