The role was created in 1998 and is charged with helping the U.S. government promote global religious freedom.

A court ruled unanimously that the New York Archdiocese did not discriminate against a school principal when it chose not renew her contract.

The law compels Hawaii's six pregnancy care centers to post or distribute information referring clients to state-provided prenatal services that would include contraception and abortion.

Two days after hundreds of people—many of them Catholic—descended on Belle Plaine to protest the installation of a Satanic memorial in the city's veterans park, the City Council voted unanimously to nix all religious symbols there.

The USCCB is "concerned that the FCC is contemplating eliminating current regulations limiting the manner by which the companies controlling the infrastructure connect people to the internet," said USCCB assistant general counsel Katherine Grincewich.

The director of Freedom of Religion South Africa, Michael Swain, said that government had no business “meddling with religion.”