As Venezuela standoff escalates, Hegseth announces overhaul of military chaplain corps, eliminating Army Spiritual Fitness Guide as first step.
Faith leaders and protesters chain themselves outside San Francisco immigration court, 12 arrested as federal agents cut through links.
Sixth Circuit rules 2-1 along party lines that Michigan’s conversion therapy ban violates Catholic charity’s free speech rights.
Trump donor Miriam Adelson offers $250 million for unconstitutional third term bid at White House Hanukkah event where guest Mark Levin called Trump “the greatest president.”
Oklahoma Supreme Court permanently nullifies social studies standards requiring Bible teaching and 2020 election doubt, finding state board violated open meeting laws.
South Carolina measles outbreak hits 111 cases with 254 quarantined, as U.S. faces losing elimination status if transmission continues through January.
DeSantis declares CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organizations in executive order, following Texas move that CAIR is now suing as unconstitutional.
US restricts visas for Nigerians involved in violence against Christians weeks after Trump ordered Pentagon to plan potential military action over religious persecution claims.
House Education Committee launches antisemitism probe into Fairfax County Public Schools, one of three districts facing federal inquiry over alleged Title VI violations.
Trump orders review of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates for terrorist designation week after Texas declared group terrorist and targeted CAIR, drawing lawsuit.
Trump announces he is ending Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota, claims without evidence that “Somali gangs are terrorizing” the state.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designates Muslim civil rights group CAIR as terrorist organization and orders criminal investigations, prompting federal lawsuit over First Amendment violations.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designates Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations.
Catholic bishops issue first special pastoral message in 12 years opposing mass deportation and dehumanizing rhetoric in rare rebuke of Trump policies.
Fort Worth church’s Campaign University trains Christians to seek office teaching “no separation between church and state,” expanding to Florida and Hawaii churches as creator Nate Schatzline joins Trump faith board.
Supreme Court rejects Kim Davis appeal seeking to overturn 2015 same-sex marriage decision after she was ordered to pay $360,000 for denying couple a marriage license.
Paxton sues Galveston ISD for delaying Ten Commandments display while federal appeals court weighs constitutionality of state law requiring classroom posters.
Vice President Vance tells Turning Point USA he hopes Hindu wife Usha converts to Christianity, saying he wants her “somehow moved by the church” away from her faith.
FBI arrests Alabama man with weapons cache and list of religious leaders’ addresses after threatening calls to multiple rabbis and imam saying “I want you to die.”
Texas Supreme Court amends judicial conduct rules to allow judges to decline same-sex weddings based on religious beliefs without violating state impartiality standards.
Little Rock School District seeks to intervene in federal lawsuit challenging Arkansas voucher program as unconstitutional, with 51,000 statewide applications (10% of state’s students).
Oklahoma’s new School Superintendent reverses predecessor’s mandate requiring Bibles in every classroom and biblical instruction, saying he has “no plans to distribute Bibles” and will dismiss lawsuit.
ICE denies religious leaders’ request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility despite 2008 law granting religious workers reasonable access to immigration detention sites.
University of Arkansas installs 500 Ten Commandments posters in compliance with state law requiring displays in public institutions, despite federal judge blocking law at five school districts.
Man arrested with Molotov cocktail and charged with threats to kidnap or injure hours before Supreme Court mass at DC cathedral.
Justice Department sues pro-Palestinian protesters in first use of abortion clinic access law to prosecute religious worship interference, targeting demonstration against West Bank settlement sales outside New Jersey synagogue.
Trump and Congress members declare Mormon church shooting ‘targeted attack on Christians’ despite virtually all Christian denominations not recognizing LDS as Christian faith.
Trump headlines a memorial for activist Charlie Kirk 10 days after his fatal shooting, transforming the service into a MAGA political rally for tens of thousands.
ICE releases Cincinnati imam Ayman Soliman and reinstates his asylum two months after detaining him based on a disputed terror designation.
UC Berkeley provided the Trump administration the names of 160 students and staff for a federal investigation into campus antisemitism.
The Trump administration destroyed nearly $10 million in contraceptives for low-income countries based on the false claim they cause abortions.
A House moment of silence for Charlie Kirk devolves into shouting after Rep. Lauren Boebert demands an audible prayer, saying “silent prayers get silent results.”
Trump directs the Education Department to issue new school prayer guidance, claiming students are indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda.
Chicago church leaders urge residents to prepare for calm resistance as the Trump administration threatens a federal law enforcement crackdown despite the city’s falling crime rates.
Texas AG Ken Paxton uses a new school prayer law to endorse the Lord’s Prayer just weeks after a court struck down a Ten Commandments mandate.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressures West Virginia to weaken its school vaccine mandate, citing civil rights laws to demand a religious exemption.
Judge strikes down Minnesota law excluding faith-based colleges from high school credit program, ruling it violated religious freedom.
State Department fires press officer Shahed Ghoreishi after he questioned pro-Israel talking points on Gaza and West Bank terminology.
Trump launches review to purge Smithsonian museums of exhibits on slavery and other “divisive” history, attacking focus on racial injustice as partisan.
Defense Secretary reposts video by CREC pastors led by Doug Wilson calling to revoke women’s voting rights while praising a Christian nationalist church.
ICE detains and continues holding Purdue student and Episcopal priest’s daughter after routine visa hearing despite attorneys disputing DHS claim she overstayed religious visa.
OPM tells federal employees they can proselytize at work and supervisors can invite staff to their churches under new religious freedom guidance.
The Trump administration is using a $1.5 million grant to pivot the 55-year-old Title X birth control program toward controversial, non-IVF infertility treatments favored by religious conservatives.
OPM allows religious telework accommodations despite return-to-office mandate following Supreme Court ruling that employers must grant religious requests.
San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Rojas suspends Mass obligation for 1.5 million Catholics due to immigration fears after ICE raids on two parish properties.
IRS says pastors can endorse political candidates from pulpit to their congregations without losing tax-exempt status, seeking religious carve-out from Johnson Amendment prohibiting all tax-exempt organizations from political endorsements.
ADL and Jewish members of Congress criticize Trump for using antisemitic slur “Shylock” at Iowa rally as Trump claims ignorance of term’s meaning.
Supreme Court’s conservative majority rules parents can remove children from classes with LGBTQ books in 6-3 decision.
Christian and other faith leaders sue Texas education agency over law requiring Ten Commandments displays in all public school classrooms.
