After a year in which 8 million Christians faced persecution, activists with the Netherlands-based Open Door network released ...

ADF’s legal brief stressed that the European Court’s case law grants states a wide margin of appreciation in matters of religion in public life, arguing that a religious image alone does not restrict ...

The Maldives, the small South Asian island nation, recently passed a new law to tighten the noose of the media. But this new ...

The question is whether the U.S. will respond with moral clarity, strategic realism, and principled accountability.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday condemned the five-year prison sentence handed down to Remi Rowhani, a Baha’i religious dignitary, following a a months-long trial by Qatari authorities. Rowhani was ...

The European Court of Human Rights is reviewing a case that could determine whether religious symbols may be displayed in courtrooms and other public buildings. The case arises from complaints by ...

It is both ironic and tragic that the Department of State has implemented a massive reorganization, which may have troubling implications for America’s international religious freedom policy. As ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Last week Qatar sentenced the leader of that country’s tiny Baha’i community to ...

A pair of Twin Cities pharmacists sued Walgreens and the state Board of Pharmacy, claiming they lost work for refusing to fulfill prescriptions for gender transition and abortion based on religious ...

The Pakistan parliament on May 13 disregarded opposition members’ resistance and passed a law to establish a commission to protect the rights of religious minorities in this Islamic nation. National ...

The Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is arguing in federal court that a state “human rights” law is infringing upon its freedoms of religion and speech as well as the freedoms of a pregnancy ...

The right to freely practice one’s religion is among the strongest predictors of societal peace and success, according to this lucid study from political scientist Hertzke (Religion and Politics in ...