ATLANTA — An attorney for a former Atlanta fire chief argued in court Friday that his client was let go for his religious beliefs, but lawyers for the city disputed that. Kelvin Cochran wrote a book called “Who Told You ...

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Every day at lunch, a handful of teenagers in Frisco, Texas, would pop into room C112, face a whiteboard and kneel for one of their five daily prayers. It was just a spare classroom, used for everything from teachers’ grading ...

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In 1993, the Supreme Court granted constitutional protections to an Afro-Cuban religious group that sacrifices animals, such as goats, chickens, ducks and turtles, as a form of ritual. More than two decades later, specifically Thursday, three federal appeals court judges ...

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BARKER — A town clerk in a rural upstate New York community has submitted her resignation, citing her religious opposition to gay marriage. Laura Fotusky submitted a letter of resignation to the town board in Barker on Monday ...

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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that taxpayers who challenged an Arizona law providing tax credits to school tuition organizations lacked standing to challenge a program that uses state funds generated by tax revenues to award scholarships to private religious schools.

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U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit   Job Discrimination Religion — Coworker Comments Sayed v. Hilton Hotels Corporation 10-453-cv Appealed from the Southern District of New York Background: This appeal is from an order of the district court granting summary ...

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Businesses have to put the holly in holidays rather than the Christ in Christmas. Office holiday parties are a regular occurrence this time of year, but businesses have to stay neutral on having religion ...

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NEW YORK CITY — The questions on the ads aren’t subtle: Leaving Islam? Fatwa on your head? Is your family threatening you? A conservative activist and the organizations she leads have paid ...

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