Leading Muslims and the media in France here have indicated general support of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's striking comments Monday that the burqa cover for Muslim women is "not welcome on Fren  read more »

A South Texas town violated state protections against government limits on religious practice when it shut down two religious halfway houses for parolees, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.

A federal judge today denied an evangelical Christian group's request for permission to hand out literature on sidewalks at an Arab festival in the heart of the Detroit area's Middle Eastern community  read more »

The federal government's crackdown on suspected terrorism financing since the Sept.  read more »

Conservative Christian leaders are fighting a bill that would provide federal hate-crimes coverage to gays and lesbians, prompting questions of who, if anyone, should be protected by such laws.

New guidelines for volunteers in the Marysville School District stop them from promoting religious or political viewpoints.

The Christian legal group that has been defending a Ten Commandments display in Stigler, Okla., is reviewing possible options for appeal after a federal appeals court deemed the monument as a perceiva  read more »

John Freshwater, an eighth-grade science teacher facing dismissal for allegedly preaching in the classroom, is suing the Mount Vernon City School District, saying it violated his constitutional and ci  read more »

The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., says he's a man of God, not a lobbyist. But state officials say he's both.

This morning, Politico reports on President Obama's willingness to invoke Jesus and his Christian faith, juxtaposing it with George W. Bush's relative reluctance to do so: