The federal government’s exemption for quoting religious texts in its proposed hate speech law has attracted criticism — it ...

A majority of counties across the U.S. are seeing a steady rise in vaccine exemptions for religious or personal beliefs among ...

Measles cases have spread across the country this year, with the state of New York now facing its worst outbreak in decades. Since last fall, more than 150 measles cases have been recorded in Rockland ...

The judge in a vaccine exemptions case that resumes this week asked lawyers to complete some homework about a central question that is also existential: How would you differentiate between religious ...

Religious exemptions have risen over decades in Massachusetts. Medical exemptions that bypass immunization have fallen in the state. None of the major religions have mandates against vaccination, ...

The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo Courtesy/U.S. General Services Administration) CHARLESTON — The ...

Anthony Albanese has used the Old Testament of the Bible to justify carving out religious texts in his bill solely focused on stopping hate on the basis of race and ethnicity.

North Carolina has little sympathy for taxpayers that miss filing deadlines, but a new law eases the potential repercussions for property owners otherwise qualifying for religion-based tax exemptions.

The Bloc has pushed for years for the religious exemption to disappear, even tabling a bill in 2023 to that effect. At the time, the Quebec party pointed to comments by Montreal Imam Adil Charkaoui ...