Philadelphia's Bible Riots of 1844 reflected a strain of anti-Catholic bias and hostility that coursed through 19th-century America. Granger Collection, New York Wading into the controversy ...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American society. It protects freedom of conscience, allowing individuals to live ...

(RNS) – ‘The film humanizes that history through the stories of brave citizens who defended the right to exercise their most deeply held beliefs,’ explained co-director John Paulson. (RNS) — A new ...

What Ohio doesn’t need is the state deciding which religious stories are “positive” and which ones are ignored. History is ...

The story of America’s struggle to freely practice religion is one as old as the country itself. The documentary recounts how the Founding Fathers enshrined the free exercise of religion into the ...

Explore religious freedom in the U.S. through six faith communities and recent challenges. America’s Founding Fathers enshrined the free exercise of religion in the First Amendment, viewing it as ...

(RNS) — Nostalgia for a ‘Christian America’ overlooks the realities of religion in the founding era — which included taxes, jail time, exile and even public hangings for anyone who defied state-run ...

That’s the opening line of Thomas Tweed’s encyclopedic new book Religion in the Lands That Became America: From the Ice Age to the Information Age (Yale Univ., May 2025). It also describes his ...

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FAYETTEVILLE -- A nationally recognized religious scholar has filed a brief in a lawsuit challenging a law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in Arkansas schools, arguing the law is ...