Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

Minor modifications

Healthcare Mandate |  HHS releases changes to contraceptive mandate, still requires coverage from objecting religious nonprofits

Flags and signs are held during a rally for religious freedom.

A pattern developing

Religion |  Another religious business owner wins an injunction against the federal government's contraceptive mandate

Heiner Bielefeldt
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Herr professor

United Nations |  Religious freedom advocates, often ignored, find a friend in UN representative Heiner Bielefeldt

West of Memphis
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West of Memphis

Documentary |  In 1993, searchers for three missing 8-year-old boys found their bodies in a drainage ditch in West Memphis, Ark. Investigators believed that because of the…

Stanford Law professor Michael McConnell

‘To litigate and protect’

Religion |  Stanford Law opens the country’s first religious liberty legal clinic with the goal to train students and educate the general public on the issues at hand

Court dismissal
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Court dismissal

Supreme Court |  Despite few breakthroughs, embryonic stem cell research gets high court boost

A researcher expands human embryonic stem cells under a microscope at the University of Michigan Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Case dismissed

Supreme Court |  The high court allows President Obama’s expansion of embryonic stem cell research to stand

VIOLATED: Residents of Newtown react to news of the shooting.
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A town clothed in misery

Shooting |  As they mourn, local churches seek to bring hope to a spiritually desolate city after the horrific Sandy Hook shooting

Ana Márquez-Greene

‘Ana is with Jesus’

Shooting |  A portrait of one family affected by Friday’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., as they prepare for their daughter’s funeral

Not a victory

Not a victory

Religion |  Circuit court says Wheaton and Belmont Abbey lawsuits aren’t ready for a decision, but orders government to issue promised amendments to contraceptive…

President Obama pauses as he delivers a speech Sunday night in Newtown.

'You're not alone'

Shooting |  President Obama, and Newtown, grapple with grief after Friday’s mass shooting

Mourners gather for a vigil service at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church Friday night.

Newtown covered in ashes

Shooting |  A Connecticut town mourns after Friday’s mass shooting at an elementary school

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