Religion Clause

On January 21, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights sent a Notice of Violation ( full text ) to the state of I...

In Hamann v. City of Carbondale, Illinois ,  (SD IL, Jan. 21, 2026), an Illinois federal district court refused to preliminarily enjoin the ...

Speaking to the press on Wednesday, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin confirmed that Pope Leo XIV has been invited by Presi...

 Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported  this week that in the Southern Pacific island nation of Samoa, with a population of 220,000, religi...

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, sitting en banc,  heard oral arguments in two cases raising the question of the constitutio...

The U.S. Supreme Court today denied review in Agudas Chasidei Chabad v. Russian Federation,  (Sup. Ct., Docket No. 24-909,  certiorari denie...

Media in Britain, the U.S. and Israel are reporting that the U.S. State Department is considering offering asylum to British Jews because of...

From SSRN: L. Joe Dunman, Religion in the Law: An Open Access Casebook (2d Ed.) , (January 04, 2026). Richard Yuan, Reverse-Hostage Strateg...

Last Friday, Becket released the 7th edition of its Religious Freedom Index reflecting a poll of 1002 respondents surveyed between Sept. 29 ...

Today is National Religious Freedom Day, the 240th anniversary of the adoption of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom by the Commonw...

In Smith v. Pugh ,  (7th Cir., Jan, 15, 2026), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Muslim inmate's rights under the Religi...

As previously reported , last December in Mirabelli v. Bonta,  a California federal district court held unconstitutional the policy of Calif...

The Department of Homeland Security yesterday issued a Release titled Improving Continuity for Religious Organizations and their Employees  ...

 As previously reported , last April, President Trump nominated Mark Walker, a former Baptist minister and former congressman, to be Ambassa...

In Tafzi El Hadri and El Idrissi Mouch v. Spain , (ECHR, Jan 8, 2026), the European Court of Human Rights rejected claims by two educators e...

Last week (Jan. 8), Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that in response to the December terrorist attack in Bondi, he is...

Tomorrow (Tuesday), the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases involving alleged illegal discrimination against transgende...

In Brox v. Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and  Nantucket Steamship Authority , (1st Cir., Jan. 9, 2026), the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Ap...

From SSRN: David Eliot Bernstein, Title VI Hostile Environment Law in the Shadow of Antisemitic Violence ,  (Journal of Free Speech Law, For...

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe I , (Sup. Ct., Docket No. 24-856. cert.  granted 1/9/2026...