Bring your group to the Baptist Joint Committee
We host groups of any size or background in our Center for Religious Liberty to talk about our work on Capitol Hill, our Baptist heritage and how religious liberty is legally protected.
U.S. commission: Russia a major violator of religious freedom
The State Department should add Russia to its list of the worst violators of religious freedom, a U.S. commission declared in its annual report.
Appeals court upholds decision halting Executive Order on immigration
Finding the primary purpose of the Order to be religious rather than secular, the May 25 decision leaves in place a lower court’s injunction halting the enforcement of the Order’s immigration bans.
Department of Defense expands its list of recognized religions
The Department of Defense announced a near doubling of its list of recognized religions. It will now formally recognize humanism and other minority faiths among members of the armed forces.
Hollman Report: Church, state and scrap tires: What’s at stake?
To understand what is truly at stake and to avoid the trap of hysteria in the Trinity Lutheran Church case, it helps to know a little history.
Reflections: Reality over rhetoric
Some continue to blur the lines between being generally “political” – which is permitted – and taking a partisan position for or against a candidate’s campaign for office – which is not.
