A Southwest Florida man who in past years has been allowed to distribute free Bibles to high school students on Religious Freedom Day was turned down this year by the district's superintendent.
The Iowa Department of Administration has agreed to include religious charities in a list of organizations eligible to receive donations from a giving system for state employees.
A federal appeals court in St. Louis heard arguments Thursday in a case involving the distribution of Gideon Bibles to children in public schools. Outside religious groups were previously allowed to distribute Bibles during the school day.
The Oregon couple who chose prayer over medicine to heal their infant daughter asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss criminal charges against them, arguing their right to religious freedom.
Montana has become the third state to allow physician-assisted suicide. A state judge ruled last Friday that a mentally competent person who is terminally ill has a right to die by assisted suicide.
Many pro-life advocates are renewing their call to legislators to remove all state funding to Planned Parenthood clinics after they discovered the organization's Indiana affiliate was selling holiday gift certificates that could be redeemed for health services, including abortion.
Two California lawmakers and openly gay members of the Legislature have introduced measures supporting the repeal of Proposition 8. But backers of the measure contend it was an amendment that was legally enacted through the state's initiative process.
The Texas Board of Education on Wednesday heard public arguments for and against a current science standard that requires students to be taught the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution. A majority of board members are in favor of retaining the language.
There's a war on Christmas and Christians are drawing up the battlelines. Christian groups who feel that Christmas is slowly disappearing from the public square have launched a campaign against retailers who ban "Christmas" references from their holiday advertising.
The nation's top court will today take up a case launched by a religious group in Utah that contends it has a right to place its "Seven Aphorisms" alongside the Ten Commandments monument in a park owned by Pleasant Grove City.