Prayer to Stay in Rhode Island School For Now

School officials in a Rhode Island town voted 4-3 last night to keep a large banner in place at West Cranston High sporting an "Our Heavenly Father" prayer, fashioned about 50 years ago. The state's ACLU had warned that the prayer banner violates the...

Supreme Court Denies Petition in University Funding Case

Last fall, by a 2-1 vote, the 7th Circuit ruled that a policy of the University of Wisconsin, withholding funds for religious activity while funding other similar but nonreligious activity, is unconstitutional. As I summed it up at the time: The majority opinion...

Lawsuit Planned After Military Fails to Support Atheist Event

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation will file a lawsuit to challenge military leaders' refusal to support a secular-themed concert at Fort Bragg with the same resources it provided to a recent Christian event. Critics charged the "Rock the Fort"...

Quote of the Day: Silvano Tomasi

Responding to news of the horrific murder earlier this week of Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's representative to the UN, made a strong statement in defense of religious liberty: Religious strife is a danger to...