The Second Circuit affirmed Wednesday that an insurer should have indemnified the Hartford Roman Catholic Diocese for its settlements with four victims of pedophile priests from the 1970s and 1980s.
Read moreIndia’s government on Wednesday approved an ordinance to implement a top court ruling striking down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce.
Read moreThe International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced Tuesday that she is launching a preliminary investigation into deportations of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh.
Read morePope Francis is codifying ways of consulting ordinary Catholics about issues facing the Catholic Church and is giving more decision-making options to bishops to interpret and implement them.
Read moreFree speech in higher education is under threat because a culture of censorship that caters to student outrage is spreading in favor of open engagement on unpopular or even discredited ideologies on campus, academics and Department of Justice Officials said at a forum held Monday.
Read moreVirginia’s Republican candidate for Senate blamed the lack of civility in modern politics on the removal of Christian values from public schools at a candidate forum Sunday.
Read moreCargill Meat Solutions will pay $1.5 million to settle charges of discriminating against African and Muslim employees, the EEOC announced Friday.
Read moreA foreman claims in a federal complaint that the American Asphalt Co., of West Collingswood Heights, N.J., fired him because he’s a pagan.
Read morePope Francis accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop Thursday and authorized an investigation into allegations he sexually harassed adults, adding awkward drama to an audience with U.S. church leaders over the abuse and cover-up scandal roiling the Catholic Church.
Read morePope Francis is summoning the presidents of every bishops conference around the world for a February summit to discuss preventing clergy sex abuse and protecting children — evidence that he realizes the scandal is global and that inaction threatens to undermine his legacy.
Read moreA Minnesota man filed a federal class action claiming he was forced to attend a religious lecture while he was an inmate in the Dakota County jail and faced punishment if he tried to “escape.”
Read moreA Catholic hospital in Germany discriminated by ousting a doctor from a supervisory role after finding out that he had divorced and remarried, the European Union’s highest court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA Pennsylvania county argued to the Third Circuit Friday afternoon that it should not have to remove a cross on its seal because it is historical, not religious.
Read moreOn the heels of a grand jury report detailing 70 years of sexual-misconduct allegations involving six of the Pennsylvania’s eight Roman Catholic dioceses, New York launched a state probe Thursday into the church’s handling of abuse allegations.
Read moreA federal judge Wednesday permanently blocked Texas regulations requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains, predicting they could lead to a “near catastrophic failure” of the reproductive health care system in the state.
Read moreMyanmar’s government looks as if it’s under siege from an international community concerned about the condition of its nascent democracy, with widespread calls for a genocide tribunal to hold its military to account for the brutal treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority.
Read moreThe Archdiocese of Washington is seeking an en banc review of a D.C. Circuit ruling that said a metropolitan transit authority was within its rights when it imposed a 2015 ban on religious ads.
Read moreA Dutch judge is extending by two weeks the detention of a 26-year-old man who allegedly threatened to attack the organizer of a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest.
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