The Iraqi national anthem opened the Mass as women wailed with emotion.

The establishment and free exercise clauses prohibit the government from impeding or requiring observance of any religious holiday, including Christmas.

The senator's own faith journey has taken him from the Catholicism of his early childhood to Mormonism, then to a Baptist megachurch, and back to the Catholic faith again.

“We are standing on an abyss of a revolutionary change on how religions have operated in Canada.”

The questions in the Supreme Court oral arguments weighed anti-discrimination laws against freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression.

After surviving ISIS, Christian communities in Nineveh face a new threat as Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi government troops backed by Shiite militias square off across the province.