A pastor says his church in Northern Ireland has been vandalized a week after it gave shelter to more than 100 Romanian Gypsies who fled their homes amid racist attacks.

Police say they're investigating whether chalk graffiti bearing religious references scrawled on a northeast Las Vegas driveway represented a teenage prank or a hate crime.

A young Christian man was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam, and police are doing nothing about it

President Obama urged Islamic nations to recognize the importance of religious freedom and democratic values in his Cairo speech this week, but he failed to take a hard line on repressive laws, accord  read more »

In a rare rejection of an appointment by the Texas governor, the Senate Thursday ousted Don McLeroy as chairman of the State Board of Education, with his supporters claiming the Bryan dentist was the  read more »

An American woman who is being tried with her husband on charges of forgery and child trafficking after they adopted twin orphans said Saturday the trial was part of Egypt's "persecution" against Chri  read more »

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A congressionally backed panel said Friday that religious freedoms were deteriorating in Russia, Turkey and four other nations that were added to a watch list of countries where people's rights to wor  read more »

A Nevada school district agreed to pay $400,000 to a Muslim girl and her friend over allegations that other students threatened to kill her in the stairwell for wearing a religious head scarf and the  read more »

Just before the end of the Bush administration last January, the U.S. State Department redesignated eight nations as "countries of particular concern" because of their religious freedom violations.