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Religious Freedom

Bishops speak up after two Catholic priests killed in Kenya

May 29, 2025
By Fredrick Nzwili
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Catholic bishops in Kenya are demanding a full investigation into the suspicious deaths of two priests within days of each other, calling the incidents deeply disturbing.

Cardinal Dolan, Becket honoree, is ‘intensely devoted’ to protection of religious freedom

May 28, 2025
By Armando Machado
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York has been awarded Becket’s 2025 Canterbury Medal for his lifelong commitment to the cause of religious liberty.

Supreme Court rejects Indigenous coalition’s appeal over mine’s threat to sacred site

May 27, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News

The U.S. Supreme Court on May 27 rejected an appeal from a coalition of Western Apache people, along with other Native American and non-Indigenous supporters, that sought to protect their sacred site at Oak Flat, Ariz., from destruction by a copper mining giant.

Polish order appeals for prayers as Catholic priests face draconian sentences in Belarus

May 27, 2025
By Jonathan Luxmoore
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

A Polish religious order has requested prayers from Christians worldwide for one of its senior priests, Oblate Father Andrzej Juchniewicz, who was sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment on unspecified political charges in Belarus.

Story behind beatification of Poland’s Father Stanislaw Streich is one of quiet courage

May 22, 2025
By Katarzyna Szalajko
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News

In one of the first beatifications under Pope Leo XIV, the church in Poland is preparing to celebrate the beatification of Father Stanislaw Streich, a humble parish priest murdered at the altar in 1938.

USCIRF praises Pope Leo XIV for continuing Vatican’s international religious freedom work

May 19, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan U.S. government commission that monitors religious freedom around the globe, praised Pope Leo XIV May 16 for demonstrating the Vatican would continue its advocacy for international religious freedom during his papacy.

Trump names three U.S. bishops, priest to religious liberty commission advisory board

May 19, 2025
By OSV News
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

Three U.S. Catholic bishops and a parish priest were among religious leaders President Donald Trump appointed to an advisory board of his recently established Religious Liberty Commission.

French town near city with papal history to mark 100 years since Martyrs of Orange beatification

May 11, 2025
By Caroline de Sury
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News

On May 11, Archbishop François Fonlupt and neighboring bishops will mark the 100th anniversary of the beatification of the Martyrs of Orange — 32 religious sisters guillotined during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their faith.

Civil rights probe launched over state abuse reporting law’s lack of Catholic confession protections

May 8, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Religious Freedom, World News

The Justice Department said May 5 it opened a civil rights investigation into the development and passage of legislation in Washington state that requires clergy to report child abuse or neglect but provides no exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege.

Trump establishes religious liberty commission including Cardinal Dolan, Bishop Barron

May 2, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

President Donald Trump on May 1 signed an executive order creating a religious liberty commission during an interfaith event marking the National Day of Prayer in the White House Rose Garden.

Justices to decide on Catholic charter schools after hearing case

April 30, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 30 heard oral argument in a case concerning the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City’s effort to establish the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would be the nation’s first publicly funded Catholic charter school if it survives the challenge.

Washington Roundup: Trump, Biden to attend papal funeral; ‘Anti-Christian bias’ task force convened

April 25, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News

President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, a bipartisan congressional delegation, and former President Joe Biden are among the U.S. officials traveling to Rome for Pope Francis’ funeral.

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