This is the lived reality of millions of people in highly controlling religions, cults, and coercive situations worldwide. Individuals in such situations are physically free to leave and yet feel ...

Beginning with the 4th of July celebrations last Friday, Americans commenced a year-long commemoration and celebration in anticipation of our Bisesquicentennial (the 250th anniversary of the ...

When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations last week about religious persecution, he posed that freedom of religion is not a partisan talking point; it is a universal human right. While ...

Two Georgetown University institutes filed a lawsuit on behalf of 27 religious denominations and associations against the revocation of policies which protected places of worship from immigration ...

On June 17, the International Religious Freedom Summit was held in Nairobi, Kenya. Recently, 200 Christian IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) were massacred in Nigeria. Terrorist groups like ...

In recent years, litigation on certain types of religious freedom lawsuits have been practically run of the mill: prayer on school premises, for example, and government funding for students at ...

Religious leaders, professors, scholars and peers meet for the Religious Freedom Annual Review. The meeting was held on June 17, 2025. (Jayden Barney) The Religious Freedom Annual Review was held at ...

When President Obama signed a newly strengthened international religious freedom act, the intention was to protect religious believers around the world. But the act, signed December 16, is being ...

I normally steer clear of the really potentially controversial topics these days. I guess I learned a long time ago that we already have enough sources of dysfunction and discord, and I simply don’t ...

Humanists International’s latest Freedom of Thought Report (Key Countries Edition) warns that laws restricting “blasphemy” ...