(RNS) — There will be no government-established religious charter school in Oklahoma. With Amy Coney Barrett having recused herself for unexplained but surmisable reasons, the remaining Supreme Court ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court in a trio of rulings expected in the coming weeks appears inclined to extend its trend of taking an expansive view of religious rights while potentially ...

Living Democracy Joy Cowdery The First Amendment has two provisions concerning religion: the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. The Establishment clause prohibits the government from ...

From Hilsenrath v. School District of the Chathams, decided yesterday by the Third Circuit (Judge Thomas Hardiman, joined by Judge Arianna Freeman): During the 2016–2017 school year, C.H. was a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide between two competing visions of the First Amendment this term in a pair of cases out of Oklahoma. Under one theory, the religion clauses (“Congress shall ...

WASHINGTON — Oklahoma will not be able to launch the nation's first religious public charter school after the Supreme Court on Thursday deadlocked 4-4 in a major case on the separation of church and ...

Last month, House Speaker Mike Johnson caused a stir by stating in an interview that "the separation of church and state is a misnomer." Johnson was responding to a skeptical interviewer on CNBC who ...

The Supreme Court appears ready to approve the nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma, dealing a monumental blow to the separation of church and state by effectively writing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump sits at a desk as he and religious leaders listen to a musical performance before Trump signs an executive ...

Each holiday season, as peppermint mochas return to coffee shop menus and mall Santas take their posts, a familiar kind of religious freedom conflict appears in the news: disputes over nativity scenes ...