#Religious Freedom

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🇺🇸 Faith lessons don't belong in public schools, and Christians know that — 10/04/2026 [USA]
The collection of warm and fuzzy scriptures being considered for Texas curricula is likely just a Trojan horse for more extreme theology.
Related: #Education Policy, #Church-State Separation
🇺🇸 Thousands of Palestinians pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque after Israel’s 40-day ban — 09/04/2026 [USA]
Around 3,000 worshippers held morning prayers at Al-Aqsa after Israel lifted restrictions.
Related: #Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, #Security Policy
🇺🇸 Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ youth — 31/03/2026 [USA]
The Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy aimed at youths violates the free speech rights of a conservative Christian therapist. NBC News' Ryan Reilly reports on the court's de...
Related: #LGBTQ Rights, #Free Speech, #Youth Protection
🇺🇸 Canada’s Supreme Court Hears Case on Ability to Suspend Constitutional Rights — 25/03/2026 [USA]
Quebec’s ban on religious symbols — and a measure that suspends constitutional rights — are being tested in a case with far-reaching repercussions.
Related: #Constitutional Law, #National Unity
🇬🇧 How a ban on religious symbols has triggered a Canadian constitutional debate — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Quebec's law to regulate religious symbols goes to the Supreme Court in a constitutional test case.
Related: #Secularism
🇺🇸 Anti-Muslim Comments by G.O.P. Congressman Reflect a Rising Trend — 22/03/2026 [USA]
On Capitol Hill and in Nashville, comments by Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee have sown division and underscored a growing tolerance on the right for Islamophobia.
Related: #Islamophobia, #Political Rhetoric, #Conservative Politics
🇺🇸 Canada’s Supreme Court must strike down Quebec’s Bill 21 — 22/03/2026 [USA]
Under the guise of preserving secularism, this law allows the exclusion of people based on their religious identity.
Related: #Secularism
🇬🇧 There’s nothing sinister about Muslim prayers in Trafalgar Square. As a bishop, I reject the right’s attacks on worship | Arun Arora — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
At a time when Britain has never felt more divided, we should draw on Christian values to reject hate and focus on what unites usWhen you think about the unedifying political furore about th...
Related: #Political Criticism
🇬🇧 Attorney general asks if Kemi Badenoch would object to Jewish public prayer — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Exclusive: Richard Hermer, who is Jewish, says Tory leader and shadow minister seem ‘to only have an issue with Muslim events’Richard Hermer, the attorney general, has challenged Kemi Badeno...
Related: #Political Inquiry
🇬🇧 ‘The saddest day for Muslim worshippers in Jerusalem’: al-Aqsa mosque closed at Eid — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Palestinians say the move is part of a wider Israeli strategy to leverage security tensions to tighten restrictionsFor the first time since 1967, al-Aqsa mosque – Jerusalem’s most sensitive ...
Related: #Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
🇺🇸 Clergy seek court order to allow pastoral access to immigrants held at Minneapolis ICE facility — 20/03/2026 [USA]
Protestant and Catholic clergy are asking a federal judge to order that they be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration's enforcement su...
Related: #Immigration
🇬🇧 Nigel Farage condemned over call to ban public prayer for Muslims in the UK — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Reform party leader criticised for making comments after event held in London’s Trafalgar Square this weekMuslim leaders have condemned Nigel Farage’s call to ban public prayer by Muslims in...
Related: #Political Controversy
🇺🇸 Federal judge strikes down Arkansas Ten Commandments in public schools law — 18/03/2026 [USA]
An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms has been struck down by a federal judge.
Related: #Legal Challenge
🇺🇸 Texas, Florida face pushback over efforts to exclude Islamic schools from school voucher programs — 15/03/2026 [USA]
Texas and Florida are facing criticism and potential legal challenges over moves to exclude Islamic schools from their school voucher programs. Both states have tried to designate the Council on Ame...
Related: #Education Policy
🇺🇸 The bright side of the 5th Circuit’s disturbing Ten Commandments decision — 12/03/2026 [USA]
There is a glimmer of hope.
Related: #Legal Controversy
🇺🇸 Judge Blocks DeSantis’s Declaration of Muslim Group as Terrorist Organization — 05/03/2026 [USA]
A federal judge found that the designation for CAIR, one of the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy groups, had violated the organization’s First Amendment rights.
Related: #First Amendment, #Government Overreach
🇺🇸 SCOTUS blocks Calif. law against schools outing transgender students to their parents — 03/03/2026 [USA]
The Supreme Court order blocks for now a California law that bans automatic parental notification requirements if students change their pronouns or gender expression at school.
Related: #LGBTQ+ Rights, #Parental Rights, #Education Policy
🇺🇸 Louisiana’s 10 Commandments Law Marks a Critical Step Toward Christian Nationalism — 01/03/2026 [USA]
Experts on the Christian right talk about the rise of the movement in the U.S., and how a state law could further erode the separation of church and state
Related: #Church and State Separation, #Christian Nationalism, #Education Policy
🇬🇧 Colander-wearing Pastafarian strains the rules with Queensland driver’s licence photo — 28/02/2026 [United Kingdom]
Syaban Shadikillah told to get new driver’s licence after being issued one using photo of him with colander on his head<ul><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?...
Related: #Government Regulations, #Freedom of Expression
🇺🇸 Trump administration charges 30 more people for Minnesota church protest — 28/02/2026 [USA]
The expanded indictment targets protesters who rallied at Cities Church in St Paul against Trump's immigration surge.
Related: #Immigration Enforcement, #Political Prosecution
🇺🇸 30 More Indicted in Cities Church Protest Against ICE in St. Paul — 27/02/2026 [USA]
The newly indicted people join nine others, including Don Lemon, in facing charges in connection to a protest of President Trump’s immigration crackdown during a worship service.
Related: #Immigration, #Free Speech, #Protest
🇺🇸 Justice Dept. charges 30 more people over anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church — 27/02/2026 [USA]
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department is charging 30 additional people in connection with a January anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest at Cities Church in Minnesota.
Related: #Immigration Enforcement, #Political Protest, #Legal Accountability
🇺🇸 Church congregant filed lawsuit against alleged Minnesota church protesters — 26/02/2026 [USA]
A St. Paul church member has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that a group of individuals, including journalist Don Lemon and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, unlawfully disrupted service last month as...
Related: #First Amendment Rights, #Immigration Politics, #Legal Consequences
🇬🇧 Man charged with hate crime after allegedly ramming gates of Brisbane synagogue with ute — 21/02/2026 [United Kingdom]
A 32-year-old has been charged with serious vilification or hate crime and other offences but police say it is not being considered a terrorist incident<ul><li>Get our <a href="https://www.t...
Related: #Hate Crime, #Community Safety
🇺🇸 Court clears way for Louisiana law requiring public schools display Ten Commandments — 21/02/2026 [USA]
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms to take effect.
Related: #Education Policy, #Constitutional Law, #Church-State Separation
🇺🇸 Court Clears Way for Louisiana Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Classrooms — 21/02/2026 [USA]
A federal appeals court vacated a temporary block on the 2024 law, tossing a previous decision that called it “plainly unconstitutional.”
Related: #Education Policy, #Church-State Separation
🇬🇧 NSW police commissioner urged to apologise to ‘entire Muslim community’ after officers disrupted prayer at Sydney protest — 11/02/2026 [United Kingdom]
Mal Lanyon says police were ‘required’ to disperse crowd, while Mehreen Faruqi accused them of ‘assaulting Muslims’<ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/feb/1...
Related: #Human Rights, #Police Conduct