Jeff Brumley

Civil rights and voting rights organizations have sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to stop its “secretive and unlawful effort” to gather and use sensitive voter information to help sabotage next month's midterm elections.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis , for the first in his two-term administration, withdrew the death warrant of an inmate who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection earlier this month.

An increasing number of Americans consider Donald Trump a threat to democracy and even more believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new study by Public Religion Research Institute.

A lawsuit filed against Pawleys Island Community Church in South Carolina for allegedly allowing a registered sex offender to work around children has been dismissed.

A new administrative headquarters and $1 million endowment will enable the Cooperating Baptist Fellowship of Oklahoma to continue its mission of serving Christ and fighting Christian nationalism, Executive Director Kyle Tubbs said. “We want to be as pure of a Christian witness despite the distortion of the Christian gospel often seen throughout our culture.”

A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by FaithWorks and more than two dozen other religious organizations to prevent immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship and other sensitive locations.

has withdrawn from, closed or sought to end more than 36 cases of discrimination involving Black, Latino and Native American victims, Democracy Forward reported.

Arkansas Secretary of State candidate Kelly Grappe was just doing the good candidate thing when she accepted an invitation to speak to a group of Americans who happened to be Muslims, she said.

Generations have passed through Historic First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, Va., over more than two centuries, but its calling as a witness to the contributions of Black people in American history has remained unchanged, Pastor Reginald F. Davis said.

Multiracial democracy demands an understanding of the tension between civil rights and religious liberty and the willingness to engage in difficult conversations to protect the rights of everyone, according to Maya Wiley.