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On May 29, the California State Assembly passed the Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2012 by a vote of 63-6. AB 1964 is now on its way to…

Photo Credit www.istockphoto.com/ Amelia Johnson [dc]I[/dc]n August 2010, Noor Abdallah, a Muslim woman who worked as a hostess at Disneylan…

Clergy in Missouri are objecting to legislationthat would remove the requirement that individual Concealed Carry Weapon permits first obtain…

Last week, after three days of tough argument before the Supreme Court, the President created a stir when he said that it would be “un…

H.R. 2867: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2011 is now on President Obama…

On August 30, 2011, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed the “Workplace Religious Freedom Act” (Int. 632-A) into law cl…

Michael PeabodyDecember 2, 2011

NOTE: This is in reference to a law that has been on the books in North Dakota for many years. In the past, it banned business all on…

EXCERPT: They defied the bishops to support President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Now Catholic hospitals are dismayed the law…

EXCERPT: The bishops of Alabama have joined with local Episcopal Church and Methodist officials in taking legal action against immigration l…

While we have tracked the emergence of the religious right in America, Fr. Robert Sirico writes in the National Review about the political p…