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The state of Ohio plans to resume the execution of condemned inmates in January, ending a three-year pause in carrying out death sentences, under a new lethal-injection protocol designed to meet U.S. Supreme Court approval, prison officials said on Monday.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has voiced his support for a Christian high school football coach in Washington state who was fired for his post-game prayers.

The law prohibits them from refusing to create artwork for same-sex marriage, which is against their religious beliefs.

A new law prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in places of public accommodation took into effect in Massachusetts on Saturday.

The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, was suspended Friday without pay for the rest of his term.

A law firm committed to representing only religious institutions and individuals was launched Tuesday, becoming the first of its kind in the city.

The judge ordered the school to treat the student “like the girl she is.”

Abolish Abortion Florida launched an online petition to amend the state constitution so that abortion will be considered as first-degree, premeditated murder.

U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning, serving 35 years in prison for passing classified files to WikiLeaks, was ordered to spend 14 days in solitary confinement as punishment for attempting suicide and keeping a banned book in her cell, supporters said.

Russell Moore, president of Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, has expressed his sorrow over the shooting death of Terence Crutcher and emphasized that "this situation has to change."

A Christian employee of the Illinois Social Security Administration who refused to watch a video on LGBTQ "diversity and inclusivity" is in danger of losing his job. David Hall, 42, said he is protesting over the video because "I don't believe God wants me to do that."

Months after being sentenced to eight years in prison for misappropriating $50 million in church funds, Singapore's City Harvest Church founder and Senior Pastor Kong Hee returned to court to plead for the ruling to be overturned.

A Saudi Arabian man who was injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing has settled a lawsuit filed against U.S. conservative media commentator Glenn Beck for claiming the man had helped finance the deadly attack.

Aaron and Melissa Klein, the Christian bakers who lost their business after refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, filed new documents Thursday with the Oregon Court of Appeals, hitting back at the lesbian couple's arguments that the Kleins were obligated to violate their religious beliefs in providing them service.

When Yvonne Allen went to renew her Alabama driver's license, she said she wasn't expecting to discuss the Bible. But the trip turned into her defending her Christian beliefs about women covering their heads.

The chief of Chicago's police department recommended on Tuesday that five officers be fired over their role in the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager, an incident that heaped national scrutiny on the nation's second largest police force.

North Carolina's university system must allow two transgender students and a transgender employee to use bathrooms matching their gender identity, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday, in a partial victory for those fighting the state's restrictive restroom law.

Parents in Gwinnett County, Ga., are accused of killing their 11-week-old daughter by not getting her proper medical care. Now in a murder trial, the father said he didn't seek medical care for the infant because it went against his religious beliefs. Police stated the baby died from drinking too much water and not enough milk. Jury members related to the trial were questioned extensively over the past week about their religious beliefs, freedom of religion and medicine.

A U.S. judge blocked Obama administration guidance thattransgender public school students must be allowed to use bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by a group of 13 states led by Texas.

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a Detroit funeral home that "operates as a ministry" was exempt from a law protecting transgender employees because of its owner's Christian beliefs.

The City Harvest Church (CHC) trial in Singapore has captured the attention of many over the past year concerning the alleged misuse of church funds. Ex-CHC fund manager Chew Eng Han has been allowed to go against the S$21m suit without having to fork out S$1.5m in security.

One Washington-based football coach, who also is a Marine Corps veteran, said he made a commitment to God he would give thanks after every game-win or lose-for the opportunity to be a football coach and for his players. That practice cost him his job, but the legal fight regarding religious rights has just begun.

African-American residents in Baltimore are routinely subjected to unconstitutional stops, arrests and excessive force by the Baltimore Police Department, a scathing federal report released on Tuesday said.

Dozens of Evangelical leaders in Texas and across the nation have sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons calling for the scheduled execution of Jeff Wood to be stopped. Wood has been on death row 18-years for being the getaway driver in a deadly convenience store robbery even though he did not kill anyone.

World Vision's Gaza Director Mohammed El-Halabi was charged by Israel's Shin Bet that he is a Hamas operative who infiltrated the Christian charity organization, using his influence and position to secretly divert millions of pounds to the Islamist group.