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Religious Freedom

Schoolchildren from St. Mary's Catholic School in Papiri, Nigeria, pose for a photo at the Niger State Government House Dec. 8, 2025, after being freed from captivity following their abduction by gunmen Nov. 21. (OSV News photo/Marvellous Durowaiye, Reuters)

World

From Nigeria to Belarus, 2025 marks a grim year for religious freedom

Paulina Guzik|Dec 30, 2025|8 Min Read

A woman prays during a Religious Freedom Day observance Jan. 16, 2022, at St. Thérèse of Lisieux Church in Montauk, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

World

Religious freedom restrictions affect 5.4 billion people worldwide, report says

Cindy Wooden|Oct 22, 2025|4 Min Read

Metropolitan Archbishop A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia inspects a residential building Sept. 8, 2024, that was destroyed by Russian glide bombs in Kharkiv, Ukraine, located within 30 miles of the frontline of Russia's 11-year invasion of that nation. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)

World

Religious freedom report: Russia guilty of ‘severe’ violations against religious minorities

Tyler Arnold|Jul 2, 2025|4 Min Read

Members of Apache Stronghold protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Sept. 11, 2024, the day the Native American-led coalition filed an appeal asking the high court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling allowing development of a copper mine in Oak Flat, Ariz., on a site Apache people consider sacred. The U.S. Supreme Court on May 27, 2025, rejected their appeal. (OSV News photo/Piroschka van de Wouw, Reuters)

Supreme Court rejects Indigenous coalition's appeal over mine's threat to sacred site

Kate Scanlon|May 27, 2025|3 Min Read

Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister, shakes hands with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 19, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

USCIRF praises Pope Leo XIV for continuing Vatican's international religious freedom work

Kate Scanlon|May 19, 2025|2 Min Read

Women are pictured in a file photo praying during Mass at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Abuja, Nigeria. (OSV News photo/Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters)

World

Nigeria pledges to uphold religious freedom, but actions on the ground suggest otherwise

Ngala Killian Chimtom|Apr 14, 2025|4 Min Read

The Supreme Court is pictured in Washington Oct. 21, 2024. The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 13 said it would consider a case about whether the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, is exempt from paying into the state's unemployment insurance system after lower courts found its operations aren't primarily religious under the statute. (OSV News photo/Kevin Mohatt, Reuters)

Faith groups, Department of Justice back Catholic religious freedom case at Supreme Court

Daniel Payne|Feb 4, 2025|2 Min Read

A woman is pictured in a file photo praying during an Orthodox service in Moscow. (OSV News photo/Sergei Karpukhin, Reuters)

World

Religious freedom 'getting worse' in Russia, Belarus and central Asia, says expert

Gina Christian|Jan 2, 2025|6 Min Read

Nigerian Christian mother of five Rhoda Jatau was acquitted of blasphemy charges after a two-and-a-half-year legal battle. (Courtesy of ADF International via CNA)

World

Major religious freedom win for Nigeria: Christian mother acquitted of blasphemy charges

Madalaine Elhabbal|Dec 20, 2024|3 Min Read

(Shutterstock via CNA)

Catholic woman awarded $12.7 million in religious discrimination lawsuit over COVID vaccine

Tyler Arnold|Nov 13, 2024|4 Min Read

Religious Freedom

A look at the religious freedom cases that could be on the Supreme Court docket this term

Tyler Arnold|Oct 2, 2024|4 Min Read

Isabel Spruce-Vaughn was arrested twice for praying outside abortion clinics. (ADF UK via CNA)

World

UK bishops warn new Public Order Act unfairly affects people of faith

Madeleine Teahan|Sep 19, 2024|3 Min Read

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