Yonat Shimron

Standing beneath the cast aluminum statue of Lady Justice, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a bold statement last week: "Many Americans have felt that their freedom to practice their faith has been under attack."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced during a Department of Justice summit in Washington that he is creating a religious liberty task force to challenge what he called a dangerous movement "eroding our great tradition of religious freedom."

A new poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic shows that when it comes to politics, white evangelical Christians stand apart from every other religious group.

Two days after he was nominated by President Trump to the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh ladled mac and cheese into takeout trays outside Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C.

A new study takes a novel approach to studying radicalization. The findings suggest that it may be the outgrowth of ethnic, racial or religious discrimination.

As the summer heat waxes and state legislative sessions wane, the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation has scored a few small but significant victories.

Even before the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy led to the separation of families, religious groups cast a jaundiced eye on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Under sweltering 94-degree heat in front of the General Assembly building, a hardy group of progressive activists gathered to revive the 40-day Poor People's Campaign.

A new Pew Research survey finds that a slim majority of Americans believe in the God of the Bible, while about one-third of Americans believe in another higher power or spiritual force.

An initiative in San Antonio has brought together clergy from different faiths to find a solution for affordable housing in a city where 19 percent of residents live at or below the poverty line.

Jordan's king appealed Sunday to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to "rebuild trust and confidence" in the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The funerals were yet to be held. The eulogies were yet to be given. The bodies were yet to be buried.  But one thing was already clear: First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs will be razed.

Abdullah Antepli, one of only seven imams to give the opening prayer in the House of Representatives, delivered a plea for celebrating differences. 

A group of evangelicals has written a letter to President Trump calling on him to do more to condemn white supremacists.

Firebrand jurist Roy Moore won the Alabama Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating an appointed incumbent backed by President Donald Trump.

After being elected president with 81 percent of the white evangelical vote, Trump retains unprecedented ties with a group of conservative Christian religious leaders.

More comes to light. A journalist's inquiry to his diocese, not images from the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville spurred a Virginia priest to confess he'd been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.