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The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a lower court ruling against multiple religious employers seeking an exemption to a New York regulation requiring employers to provide healthcare plans that include coverage of medically necessary abortions.

The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a lower court ruling against multiple religious employers seeking an exemption to a New York regulation requiring employers to provide healthcare plans that include coverage of medically necessary abortions.

The U.S. Supreme Court has made a move in favor of religious liberty. On Monday, the high court ordered a rehearing of a case in which nuns were being forced to violate their pro-life beliefs by New York's controversial abortion mandate.

As they reel from revenue losses connected to the pandemic, many colleges and universities are racking up other ...

(RNS) — One Orthodox Jewish sailor and three Muslim sailors joined in a lawsuit alleging the Navy’s beard policy amounts to a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Sarah Buckley via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 28, 2021 / 13:20 pm (CNA). Michael P. Warsaw, Chief Executive Officer of EWTN, Fr. Francis Hoffman, Chief Executive Officer of Relevant Radio, and Tim Busch, Chief Executive Of...

Along with developing a new statistical method for studying exoplanets, researchers from Penn found that the majority of stars in their dataset are similar to the sun, implying that many stars in the Milky Way could host their own Earthlike planets.

Researchers from Penn’s Department of Physics and Astronomy have developed a new method for better understanding the relationship between a star’s chemical composition and planet formation. The study was led by recent graduate Jacob Nibauer for his s

Navy sued by sailors wanting religious exemption to have beards Gustaf Kilander © Provided by The Independent Sailors in the US Navy have filed a lawsuit for a religious exemption to have beards. The lawsuit is an attempt by four men to stop the Navy from forcing them to shave in violation of their religious beliefs. The legal filing states that three of the sailors, one Hasidic Jew and two Muslims, have either been denied the ability to even have a beard that’s neatly trim...

The Tablet May 7, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court, shown in this archive photo, is the next stop in the Diocese of Albany’s fight to avoid complying with the state of New York’s mandate for employers to provide abortion coverage in their insurance plans. (Photo: Will Dunham, Reuters, via CNS) WINDSOR TERRACE — The Diocese of Albany, and 13 other petitioners, including Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case opposing New York’s a...