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

Pope Leo XIV talks to pilgrims and visitors during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 22, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez Almost two-thirds of humanity—more than ...

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 ...

(RNS) — Earlier this summer, I met a brave activist from Myanmar visiting Washington, D.C., to shine a light on religious persecution unfolding in his country. As a member of the Chin ethnic group and ...

One of the original seven principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association, formed in 1985, is “a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” Diversity is another of our values. The ...

Religious freedom, Congress unanimously declared in 1998, “undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.” Presidents of both parties have called it a “fundamental human right,” a ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.