Nearly 70% of the world's population live in countries in which there are severe restrictions on religious freedom, according to a monumental new study by the Pew Forum. The study attempts to quantify elements of "restriction" from both government and...
A panel of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's dismissal, ruling that the Council of Secular Humanism can challenge a faith-based prison program on the basis of the state constitution's "no aid to religion" provision. The...
Last December, the Supreme Court ruled (in Boumediene) that Guantanamo prisoners may file suit claiming a denial of their constitutional rights in the facility. That important decision affirmed the principle that the Constitution's guarantee of fundamental...
As the year draws to a close, the Baptist Joint Committee asked me to take a look back at 2009 and recap the most important church-state stories of the year. I’ve had the good fortune to survey religious liberty Web sites and news items daily here at the BJC’s Blog...
In Redding, California, a petition drive is underway for legislation that would require schools to provide Christmas music to students. The initiative would require schools to provide children the opportunity to listen to or perform Christmas carols, and would subject...
Far be it from me to presume to speak on the particulars of European church-state law (it's all I can do to try and keep up with religious liberty development in American courts), but I couldn't help notice Friday's Wall Street Journal op-ed by the Becket...
