http://www.pewforum.org/Despite the United States’ long tradition of separating church from state, the government is often involved in religion, and vice versa. From White House policies on letting religious groups apply for government funding for providing social services to Supreme Court decisions on issues such as religious displays on government property, government and religion are frequently intertwined.en-usCopyright: (C) Copyright 2009 The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. All rights reserved.info@pewforum.org (PewForum Info)info@pewforum.org (PewForum Info)60http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.pewforum.org/uploadedImages/_content/defaultPublicationThumb(1).gifhttp://www.pewforum.org/Thu, 23 May 2013 02:45:36 GMTThu, 23 May 2013 02:45:36 GMTTue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTBrian J. Grim, Senior Researcher at the Pew Research Center, talks about religious freedoms and restrictions at the TEDx Viadella Conciliazione conference.http://www.pewforum.org/Government/The-Numbers-of-Religious-Freedom--Brian-J--Grim-at-TEDxViadellaConcilizaione.aspxTue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTA new Pew Research Center survey finds high levels of concern about religious extremism among Muslims living in the North Caucasus area of Russia and the neighboring Central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. It also finds that most Muslims in the region reject violence against civilians.http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/Most-Muslims-in-Region-Reject-Violence-Against-Civilians.aspxFri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe Obama administration has submitted a “friend-of-the-court” brief on the legal challenge to California’s gay marriage ban, which will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26.http://www.pewforum.org/Gay-Marriage-and-Homosexuality/Obama-Administration-Weighs-Intervention-in-Gay-Marriage-Case.aspxFri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTOn Feb. 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released new rules for how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate applies to religious nonprofits, including houses of worship, schools and hospitals. Church-state law scholars Ira C. Lupu and Robert Tuttle explain the new rules and the legal arguments that religious groups might make.http://www.pewforum.org/Government/The-Contraception-Mandate-and-Religious-Liberty.aspxWed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTOn Nov. 20, a Pakistani court ordered blasphemy charges dropped against a Christian teenager who had been accused of burning pages from the Quran. A new Pew Forum analysis finds that as of 2011 nearly half the countries and territories in the world have laws against blasphemy, apostasy or defamation. http://www.pewforum.org/Government/Laws-Penalizing-Blasphemy,-Apostasy-and-Defamation-of-Religion-are-Widespread.aspxFri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTThe newly elected 113th Congress includes the first Buddhist to serve in the Senate, the first Hindu to serve in either chamber and the first member of Congress to describe her religion as "none." While Congress remains majority Protestant, the institution is far less so today than it was 50 years ago. http://www.pewforum.org/Government/Faith-on-the-Hill--The-Religious-Composition-of-the-113th-Congress.aspxThu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMTBetween mid-2009 and mid-2010, religious restrictions rose not only in countries that began the year with high or very high restrictions, such as Indonesia and Nigeria, but also in many countries that began with low or moderate restrictions, such as Switzerland and the United States. The report looks at restrictions due to government actions as well as acts of violence and intimidation by private individuals, organizations and social groups.  http://www.pewforum.org/Government/Rising-Tide-of-Restrictions-on-Religion.aspxTue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTRestrictions on religious beliefs and practices rose in 23 of the world’s 198 countries (12%), decreased in 12 countries (6%) and remained essentially unchanged in 163 countries (82%) between mid-2006 and mid-2009, a new Pew Forum report shows. More than 2.2 billion people – nearly a third of the world’s population – live in the 23 countries with increasing government restrictions or social hostilities involving religion.  http://www.pewforum.org/Government/Rising-Restrictions-on-Religion.aspxWed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTIn recent decades, a growing number of citizens and civil liberties groups have sued towns, cities and states over religious symbols in the public square, arguing that these displays should be removed because they violate the First Amendment's prohibition on government establishment of religion. http://www.pewforum.org/Church-State-Law/From-the-Ten-Commandments-to-Christmas-Trees-Public-Religious-Displays-and-the-Courts.aspxMon, 17 Sep 2012 13:37:57 GMT In this Report 1 restrictions3-preface 1 restrictions3 2 restrictions3-situation in united states Decimal Decimal Decimal Decimal Decimal http://www.pewforum.org/Government/Rising-Tide-of-Restrictions-on-Religion-TOC.aspx