TAG / RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Steven T. Collis has spent his scholarly life showing how the First Amendment is the key to a healthy and peaceful society. 

A new bipartisan Senate resolution affirms religious freedom as a fundamental human right. It’s a principle built into the Creed of the Church of Scientology.

This year’s Religious Freedom Index revealed the highest approval rating for the human right in six years.

L. Ron Hubbard wrote about the power of religion to uplift mankind. A new study proves it.

Japan’s frenzied headlong pursuit toward the dissolution of the Unification Church threatens the survival of religions everywhere, with repressive new laws that impact all faiths.

Mary Fulp was involuntarily committed to a mental health facility and forcibly injected with psychotropic drugs—all “because I love Jesus,” she says. 

While Holocaust education is only required in 29 states, 89 percent of Americans support it. But only one in three parents say their kids are receiving education on the Holocaust, according to a new survey. 

Throughout a year of conflict: religious inclusion, religious rights and religious diversity were defended around the world. Religion is more important than ever to more people—and these stories are the leading edge of progress.

For the first time in over 20 years, former USCIRF Chair Nury Turkel was reunited with his mother, released—along with two other Uyghurs—as part of a larger prisoner swap.

From the deprivation of rights to imprisonment, heavy fines, harassment, unemployment, disruption of religious services, forced labor and torture, Jehovah’s Witnesses too often pay a terrible price for their peaceful beliefs.