Religious Freedom

The chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ committees on international policy and religious liberty are calling attention to the repression and persecution of religion as being detrimental to peace.

“Religious freedom allows individuals and communities to seek the truth, to live it freely and to bear witness to it openly,” the pope said.

The third meeting of the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission examined a range of religious liberty issues.

Religious freedom violations are an early warning sign of where mass atrocities could occur around the globe, a new report said.

The commissioners gathered to examine what recommendations they should make to the president about promoting and protecting religious freedom in a report.

Religious demonstrations and freedom of worship, the bishops said, are protected by the Spanish Constitution as rights of religious freedom.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Trump administration said Aug. 1 it would revoke its predecessor’s policy rule that included abortion as a covered health benefit for veterans and their dependents, and …

Pittsburgh Bishop Mark A. Eckman said the FBI is investigating the “hateful vandalism,” while Kansas lawmen are near to make an arrest in a similar case.

The U.S. House approved Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, USAID closed after six decades, and a religious freedom watchdog issued a report on Russia.

Harvard’s Divinity School was not exempt from the Trump administration’s demand to review Harvard’s hiring decisions.