The Golden Temple, a sprawling and serene complex of gleaming gold and polished marble that is the spiritual center of the Sikh religion, is one of India’s most popular tourist attractions.

Last week President Obama nominated an ambassador at large for international religious freedom, a position created by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act.

South Koreans exulted last week in Kim Yu-na's matchless performance in Vancouver.

The United States lost a major opportunity to help improve the plight of Christians in China by putting financial interests first, says the author of a new report on religious freedom.

Good riddance to the aughts, naughts or ohs. By whatever name, the first decade of the 21st century has been devastating for religious liberty in much of the world.

 The High Court said it was the constitutional right for the Catholic newspaper, the Herald, to use the word "Allah."

 Next weekend the nation's churches will be filled to overflowing.

Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Friday charged Khmer Rouge former head of state Khieu Samphan with genocide over the regime's slaughter of Vietnamese people and ethnic Cham Muslims.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has just released a fascinating study on the state of religious freedom around the world.

 In Indonesia, Muslim groups burn down a mosque belonging to the minority Ahmadiyya.

About one-third of the countries in the world have high restrictions on religion, exposing almost 70 percent of the globe's population to limitations on their faith, new research shows.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of the great moral statements of the 20th century, could not be clearer.

Intan Suci Nurhati was on her way to a religious gathering when her sisters called to say they were under attack.