An atheist group recently objected to the principal of an elementary school instructing teachers to take their students to where Gideons were distributing Bibles.
Earlier this month, the United States Supreme Court denied Idaho officials’ request to stay a lower court ruling that struck down the state’s ban on gay marriage.
A lawsuit claims 11 Catholic nuns sexually abused 95 children at day schools and residential schools run by the Ursuline Sisters of the Western Province.
A court in Iran staged a trial this month for Ghoncheh Ghavami, the British Iranian activist who was arrested for attending a volleyball game, but she still awaits the final verdict.
Members of a congregation in Alabama sued their pastor after he confessed to having sex with worshippers on the premises of his church, even though he knew he had AIDS.
The California government will have to pay an atheist from Shasta County $1.95 million in damages for refusing to attend a religious drug-treatment program.
A priest who served at parishes in Detroit and was a former prison chaplain took the stand to deny allegations of having stolen money from a charity fund for the poor.
A man who is suing the Archdiocese of Newark and a Catholic parish in Rutherford, alleging he was sexually abused, is demanding the statute of limitations be repealed.
