The year 2012 saw a six-year high in religious hostility.
A middle school in Missouri dismissed claims of denying 12-year-old student, Loyal Grandstaff, the right to read his Bible in school.
Atheist groups are furious at the chancellor of Troy University, who sent out a non-secular video message to his faculty and students on New Year’s.
In a couple of days, Georgia Walker plans to become Kansas City’s first female Catholic priest; the Roman Catholic Church will then excommunicate her.
On December 24, in the capital city of the Islamic Sultanate of Brunei, police ordered business owners to remove Christmas decorations or face arrest.
Supporters say a bill in the Indiana legislature will secure individuals with strong religious beliefs; opponents say it will legalize discrimination.
Chief Justice of Alabama Supreme Court reprimanded the city of Huntsville for allowing atheists and wiccans to offer invocations at council meetings.
Demonstrators met outside Michigan capitol in opposition to a religious freedom bill that has been labeled as the state’s license to discriminate.
Atheists are pushing to remove their ban from public office in Maryland and six other states.
Officials of the ACLU said the group is going to tweak and relaunch the #Out4Freedom campaign to oppose bills that restrict religious freedom.