For California residents Chris and Michelle Ambuul, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s directive shuttering most private and public schools in the state because of the coronavirus pandemic has serious consequences. None of their six children can attend St. Joseph Academy in San Marcos to receive an education rooted in their Catholic faith.

After several days of legal seesawing, state and local officials and John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church are back where they started, with California and Los Angeles County saying no to indoor services and the congregation gathering for worship anyway.

A leading developer of facial recognition software is making a case that it has a First Amendment right to use and sell any and all photos publicly available online.

A business owner in Kentucky received court protection from a law that would force her to take photos at same-sex weddings while she waits for a final decision in her case.

The threat to a Christian foster care agency in South Carolina lives on. A federal judge late on Monday ruled that a Catholic woman had standing to sue the federal and state government for allowing Miracle Hill Ministries to work only with people who share its Protestant beliefs.

Rodney King offered a plaintive plea in the spring of 1992, hoping to quell deadly riots in Los Angeles. “People,” he said, “can we all get along?” 

A more sophisticated form of King’s plea may be at the heart of an unusual number of U.S. Supreme Court decisions this term that impact religious liberty: Can Americans find a way to live together despite sharp differences in religious beliefs? A majority of the court justices seem to be charting a middle course they hope will settle that question.

A public university in New Jersey recently threatened to punish a doctoral student for using a photo of President Donald Trump as his Zoom background during a virtual class on July 1.