ICE detains a 56-year-old Nigerian nun walking to Sunday Mass in South Texas, releasing her only after members of Congress intervene with the DHS secretary.
A Trump commission urges replacing the separation of church and state with “building bridges,” its chairman telling the Oval Office the principle holds “no power.”
The Texas education board votes 9-4 to require Bible stories in public school reading lists and to rewrite K-8 history in ways that play down racial and cultural diversity.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that a Rastafarian inmate cannot sue the Louisiana officials who shaved his head despite the religious-rights court order he showed them.
The Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation into Major League Baseball after it warned Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.
A Trump-appointed judge orders the Milwaukee mosque president freed from ICE detention, finding his arrest may have been retaliation for his pro-Palestinian advocacy.
Pentagon reverses its religious-affiliation list after Latter-day Saints lawmakers protest being excluded from its Christian categories.
Milwaukee mosque leader has lost 30 pounds in immigration detention as lawyers say guards disrupt his prayers and deny halal food.
Defense Secretary Hegseth cuts the Pentagon’s recognized faiths from 211 to 31, dropping Unitarian Universalists, humanists, and pagans.
FBI fires five analysts behind retracted 2023 Catholic-extremism memo, latest purge under Director Kash Patel.
Senator Rick Scott urges the taxpayer-funded Tampa Sports Authority to cancel two Kanye West concerts over the rapper’s antisemitism.
St. Paul declines to charge anti-ICE church protesters for lack of evidence, even as the Justice Department prosecutes 39 of them under the FACE Act.
Trump attacks Pope Leo XIV over his meeting with Chicago Mayor Johnson and calls the mayor “useless.”
New York criminalizes blocking entry to houses of worship and authorizes 50-foot no-protest zones after synagogue demonstrations.
DOJ sues UC over UCLA antisemitism response in third federal action targeting the university this year after February employee suit and January admissions complaint.
Pope Leo’s first encyclical condemns AI militarization with Pentagon-blacklisted Anthropic co-founder Olah beside him at the Vatican.
Labor Department appoints faith services director Wolfe to lead civil rights enforcement for up to 25% of U.S. workforce, an office set for elimination.
Chula Vista police sought court order to remove guns from San Diego mosque shooter’s home 16 months before attack, citing Nazi idolization.
Jewish woman married to Black man sues whites-only Arkansas Ozarks community for denying her land purchase under Fair Housing Act.
Iowa Gov. Reynolds signs laws requiring in-person abortion pill prescriptions, parental consent for HPV vaccines, and shielding providers who deny care for religious or moral reasons.
EEOC orders Interior Department to pay damages to three Bureau of Indian Education employees denied religious exemptions to Biden’s 2021 COVID vaccine mandate.
Trump administration funds Christian prayer rally on National Mall featuring Speaker Johnson, Defense Sec. Hegseth, and Sen. Tim Scott to launch 250th anniversary celebrations.
Trump announces U.S. and Nigerian forces killed alleged ISIS second-in-command Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second strike on militants Trump frames as persecuting Christians.
USDA employees sue Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins over ‘escalating’ Christian religious messaging to 100,000 staff, alleging First Amendment and Administrative Procedure Act violations.
Trump administration to host 9-hour Christian prayer festival Sunday on National Mall using 250th anniversary funds, with Hegseth, Rubio and Speaker Johnson speaking.
Montana judge rejects third challenge to voter-approved abortion protection amendment, ruling full text need not appear on ballot.
Rubio meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican to repair ties after Trump’s repeated attacks over Iran war and immigration.
Trump says Pope Leo endangers Catholics by tolerating Iran nuclear weapon, ahead of Rubio’s Vatican visit this week.
Federal judge apologizes to White House Correspondents dinner shooting suspect and grills DC jail over solitary confinement and Bible denial.
Supreme Court rules unanimously that New Jersey crisis pregnancy centers can challenge state subpoena seeking donor and medical staff identities in federal court.
5th Circuit rules Texas can force public schools to post Ten Commandments, declaring a 1980 Supreme Court precedent against such displays no longer binding.
Defense Secretary Hegseth recites Pulp Fiction-modeled prayer at Pentagon service, then compares Iran war journalists to Pharisees who criticized Jesus.
Trump turns on ally Meloni after Italian prime minister defended Pope Leo and suspended Israel’s military partnership, calling her “unacceptable.”
Johnson says he asked Trump to delete AI Jesus image, but Trump says it was a doctor, Vance says a joke, and Johnson says misunderstood.
Vance, a Catholic convert who wrote a book about his faith, says Pope Leo should stay out of American political affairs after criticizing the Iran war.
Trump refuses to apologize to Pope Leo and insists his deleted AI self-portrait was “supposed to be me as a doctor,” not a depiction of Jesus.
Trump attacks Pope Leo XIV as “WEAK on Crime,” claims the first American pope was chosen only to curry favor with his administration.
Texas education board gives preliminary approval to required reading list that includes Bible texts after cutting Frederick Douglass and Frankenstein.
Pope Leo XIV calls Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s “whole civilization” truly unacceptable and urges citizens worldwide to contact political leaders and demand peace.
Trump vows to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges Tuesday if Strait of Hormuz stays closed, as overnight airstrikes kill dozens across Tehran.
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.
