Florida AG Uthmeier declares he won’t enforce the state constitution’s ban on public funding for religious institutions, arguing Christianity is central to national identity.
Pentagon holds Protestant-only Good Friday service with no Catholic Mass for the first time, weeks after Hegseth invited a pastor who advocates banning Catholic worship.
Iran shoots down two U.S. warplanes, a first in the five-week war, leaving one crew member missing two days after Trump declared Iran “decimated.”
ICE detains the president of Wisconsin’s largest Islamic organization, a 32-year legal resident, over decades-old Israeli conviction from his teenage years.
Federal judge orders University of Pennsylvania to turn over names of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations to the EEOC for its antisemitism investigation.
FBI declares March 12 truck attack on Detroit-area synagogue a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism, says attacker planned mass shooting with AR-style rifle.
Defense Secretary Hegseth removes rank from military chaplain uniforms and cuts Pentagon’s recognized religious affiliations from over 200 to 31, dropping Wiccans, atheists and agnostics.
Hegseth prays for “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy” at Pentagon Christian worship service on day 27 of the Iran war.
Islamic private schools excluded from Texas’ $1 billion voucher program for months are accepted one day after a federal judge orders the state to let them apply.
Federal prosecutors drop charges against Minnesota woman they accused of joining church protest after she proves she was never there, arrested through cellphone tower dragnet.
Federal judge orders ICE to grant clergy access to Minneapolis detainees, rejecting the government’s blanket security defense as “the land of Oz.”
Protestant and Catholic clergy ask a federal judge to order pastoral access to immigrants held at the Minneapolis ICE facility that was the center of Operation Metro Surge.
Iran bombs Saudi, Qatari, and Kuwaiti energy facilities after Israeli strike on the world’s largest gas field, with oil prices up 60% since the war began.
Federal judge permanently blocks Arkansas Ten Commandments classroom mandate in six school districts, calling the law unconstitutional religious coercion.
U.S. transfers sacred Apache site Oak Flat to mining company partly owned by Chinese state entity, ending seven decades of federal protection.
Man who rammed truck into Michigan synagogue with 140 children inside had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon the week before.
Sen. Tuberville posts image linking New York City’s first Muslim mayor hosting a Ramadan iftar to the September 11 attacks, calling Muslims “the enemy inside the gates.”
Naturalized citizen from Lebanon rams truck into a Michigan synagogue with 140 children inside, exchanges gunfire with security, and is killed; FBI investigating as possible terrorism.
Texas excludes every Islamic school from its $1 billion voucher program while approving Christian, Catholic and Jewish schools, prompting a religious discrimination lawsuit.
Speaker Johnson declines to condemn GOP members who said Muslims “don’t belong” in America, calling their remarks “popular sentiment” about Sharia law during the Iran war.
Tennessee Rep. Ogles says Muslims “don’t belong in American society,” calls for deporting a naturalized U.S. citizen mayor, as Sharia Free America Caucus escalates anti-Muslim rhetoric during Iran war.
Tennessee becomes the fourth state advancing a ban on the term “West Bank” in official documents, requiring “Judea and Samaria,” a term used only by the Israeli government.
House Speaker Johnson calls Islam a “misguided religion” while defending U.S. airstrikes that have killed more than 1,000 Iranian civilians including 165 children in a girls’ school.
Federal judge blocks DeSantis executive order designating CAIR a terrorist organization, ruling no governor can unilaterally label a Muslim civil rights group.
Supreme Court orders California schools to tell parents when children change names or pronouns, bypassing oral argument on its emergency docket.
Pentagon forces Scouting America to roll back DEI programs and launch military service merit badge to keep Defense Department partnership.
DOJ indicts 30 more people for January anti-ICE protest at St. Paul church where pastor doubled as acting ICE field office director.
U.S. Ambassador Huckabee tells Carlson “it would be fine” if Israel took territory from the Nile to the Euphrates, then tries to walk it back as “hyperbolic.”
Fifth Circuit lifts injunction blocking Louisiana’s Ten Commandments classroom law, allowing enforcement despite two prior courts ruling it unconstitutional.
Hegseth invites Idaho pastor who believes women should not vote to preach at the Pentagon’s monthly prayer service, praising his “willingness to be bold” as service members look on.
HUD opens investigation into North Texas Muslim community development eight months after the Justice Depaement investigated the same project and closed the case without charges.
Maryland’s two largest school districts face backlash for designating Eid al-Fitr as a snow makeup day, drawing criticism that Muslim holidays are treated as expendable.
Federal judge orders ICE to allow Catholic priests into a Chicago-area detention facility for Ash Wednesday, ruling the agency violated religious freedom law by ending a decade of weekly visits.
Don Lemon, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, and three activists plead not guilty to federal charges for protesting ICE enforcement at a St. Paul church.
FBI used warrantless “assessment” authority to gather intelligence on over 1,000 journalists, religious organizations, and politicians between 2018 and 2024, watchdog report finds.
Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission removes member Carrie Prejean Boller after she challenged witnesses on Zionism and Israel’s war in Gaza during an antisemitism hearing.
U.S. sends 200 troops to Nigeria to train forces fighting Islamist militants, weeks after Trump threatened to go in “guns-a-blazing.”
Former Minnesota U.S. attorney who resigned over the Renee Good investigation now defends Don Lemon against his former office’s first-ever criminal FACE Act religious freedom charges.
DC health officials confirm measles cases among attendees of the January March for Life rally, with exposure sites spanning the Basilica, Catholic University, Metro, Reagan National and an Amtrak train.
Trump tells National Prayer Breakfast he “probably should” get into heaven, says he had to win 2024 “for my own ego,” and calls ICE protesters “like the Gestapo” for entering a Minnesota church.
U.S. Africa Command deploys military team to Nigeria after Trump threatened the country over alleged Christian persecution, following December airstrikes against Islamic State affiliates.
Trump demands $1 billion from Harvard over antisemitism claims and calls for criminal charges after a federal judge blocked his $2.2 billion funding freeze in September.
Don Lemon pleads not guilty after FBI arrest for covering Minnesota church protest, charged under abortion clinic access law in what legal experts call unprecedented use against journalists.
Appeals court declines to force arrest warrants for Don Lemon, four others over church protest; district chief judge called DOJ demand “unheard of.”
Vance pledges anti-abortion action at March for Life; administration expands foreign aid ban to cover abortion providers and DEI programs.
DOJ arrested three organizers of anti-ICE protest at St. Paul church, charging them with conspiracy to deprive rights; White House posted altered photo showing calm arrestee as crying.
HHS threatens to strip Illinois of federal health funding over 2017 law requiring doctors who oppose abortion to refer patients to providers who offer it.
University of Pennsylvania refuses federal demand for lists of Jewish faculty, staff and students, calling the request “unconstitutional” and citing history of governmental persecution of Jews.
Archbishop overseeing U.S. military chaplains says troops would be “morally acceptable” in disobeying orders that conflict with their conscience.
DOJ threatens to prosecute church protesters in Minnesota while ICE has made arrests at churches in at least a dozen incidents since revoking protections for houses of worship.
