In a recent unpublished decision issued on September 23, 2025, the Ninth Circuit ruled that a plaintiff must sufficiently plead a bona fide religious belief, not one based on personal interpretations ...

North Carolina has little sympathy for taxpayers that miss filing deadlines, but a new law eases the potential repercussions for property owners otherwise qualifying for religion-based tax exemptions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HARTFORD - While the Catholic Church neither formally supported nor opposed the controversial repeal of a religious exemption to ...

The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Courtroom in the State Capitol Building in Charleston. (Photo Courtesy/WV Supreme Court of Appeals) CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Board of Education took ...

May a religious group legally fire a non-ministerial employee (like a secretary or janitor) for violating the group's religious beliefs about sex or marriage? As I explained yesterday, this is the ...

The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo Courtesy/U.S. General Services Administration) CHARLESTON — The ...

The Bloc Québécois said removing the exemption was necessary to help prosecute rising hateful and antisemitic rhetoric, often made under the guise of exempted religious speech. “If we are serious ...

Slightly more than 9% of the students attending the private Christian Heritage School in Trumbull where a classmate tested positive for measles were exempted from required school vaccinations for the ...

Liberal MPs on the House justice committee backed a Bloc Québécois proposal to remove a religious exemption from Canada’s hate speech laws — after the suggestion initially appeared to halt the ...

Religious exemptions for school vaccinations in New Jersey have more than doubled in the past six years. The overall vaccination compliance rate for New Jersey students has dropped from 95% to 91% ...