The Advocate

On July 23, the Department of Justice quietly replaced one of the most consequential documents in American religious liberty law that most people have never read. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an updated memorandum on federal religious liberty protections, superseding the guidance Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued in October

Eight Beijing Zion Church leaders face trial for fraud and illegal business operations. The charges are the strategy.

On July 15, two justices of India's Supreme Court sat down with a set of numbers that have been waiting four years for a verdict. The petition in front of Justice P. S. Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe was filed by Rev. Dr. Peter Machado, the Catholic Archbishop

On November 4, 2014, in the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Pakistan's Punjab province, a mob beat a Christian couple named Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi, then threw them into the brick kiln where they worked and burned them alive. Shama was pregnant. They left three young

Strip the case to its facts and it is hard to believe the facts. Päivi Räsänen is a Finnish member of parliament, a physician, a former interior minister, and a grandmother of twelve. In 2004 she wrote a booklet for her church on marriage and sexual ethics. In March of

In late October 2025, President Trump announced that the United States was designating Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern, the sharpest instrument in American religious freedom law. The announcement ended a long asking: the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom had recommended it every year since 2009. The term