(RNS) — Over 60 years of establishment clause jurisprudence will be overturned if the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals gets its ...

A lively oral argument filled the en banc courtroom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday afternoon in New Orleans, to address this simple question: may states require the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas have all passed laws -- now on hold -- to mandate the biblical laws' display in classrooms. mtcurado ...

The State of South Carolina is joining the assault on the U.S Constitution’s foundational provision for the separation of church and state in this country. On Jan. 21, the South Carolina House ...

A sculpture with the Ten Commandments is pictured on the Texas Capitol grounds on Thursday, June 26, 2025, in Austin. More legal battles are brewing over Texas’ requirement that schools display ...

Conway schools are back in the news again, as a trio of district parents head to court in hopes of keeping Christian dogma out of their children’s classrooms. As you may recall, a federal judge ...

A heated exchange on Real Time with Bill Maher is drawing attention after Lauren Boebert and James Talarico sparred over religion in public schools. Boebert defended displaying the Ten Commandments in ...

A sculpture with the Ten Commandments is pictured on the Texas Capitol grounds on Thursday, June 26, 2025, in Austin. A federal appeals court next year will hear Texas' arguments against a ruling that ...

Controversy over the commandments is not new. In more than a dozen early cases, courts generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools. These enactments survived because the ...