In the midst of heated debates about female pastors and the morality of in vitro fertilization, the national Southern Baptist Convention recently passed a religious liberty resolution that — in terms ...

His latest book is called “Love Thy Stranger.” It describes how Jesus’ teaching reshaped the moral conscience of the West — ...

The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health worker prepares a dose of the measles vaccine Feb. 27 at a health center in Lubbock, Texas. The debate over vaccines is ...

President Donald Trump, speaking to a sprawling crowd at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday (Feb. 5), returned to his personal tradition of using the bipartisan convening as an ...

A growing chorus of concern over Uganda’s proposed Khadhi Courts Bill is stirring debate across religious and legal circles, ...

Religious exemptions have risen over decades in Massachusetts. Medical exemptions that bypass immunization have fallen in the state. None of the major religions have mandates against vaccination, ...