Tracking every Trump administration pronouncement on religion can be a dizzying project. Religion has found its way into multiple executive orders, new commissions and task forces, Truth Social posts, ...

Maharashtra's Freedom of Religion Bill passes with opposition support, allowing the state to combat forced conversions ...

On May 7, a devout Muslim was called to give testimony in her ex-boyfriend’s criminal case. He was charged with assaulting her and with domestic violence. What would have been a tragic but routine ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

On July 28, 2025, the Trump administration issued a memorandum to all heads and acting heads of federal government departments and agencies entitled “Protection Religious Expression in the Federal ...

One of the great blessings of liberty we enjoy in our country is freedom of religion. The Founding Fathers of our nation wanted to avoid having a state-sponsored religion. Baptists, Puritans, Quakers, ...

You are standing in front of a door with no lock, no guard, and no chain. You desperately want to leave, and yet every cell in your body screams that walking out will bring catastrophe. This is the ...

The BJP-led government in Maharashtra has introduced the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 in the state Assembly, ...

When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations last week about religious persecution, he posed that freedom of religion is not a partisan talking point; it is a universal human right. While ...

A day after the Maharashtra government introduced the draft Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026, in the state Assembly, Maharashtra Minister Shambhuraj Desai ...