A Muslim prisoner doesn't have to register as Jewish to eat kosher meals that meet Muslim dietary restrictions, a federal judge has ruled.

2000 law also prohibits communities from zoning out houses of worship

A Georgia prison inmate has won an important court ruling in his bid to wear a yarmulke at all times and be served kosher food.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this term in a lawsuit brought by prison inmates in Ohio may have far-reaching implications for the future of religious freedom in America.

LOS ANGELES – A Virginia-based religious rights group has filed a federal lawsuit against the city for its refusal to permit the display of a banner with the phrase "Jews who believe in Jesus."

If you are Catholic, Muslim, or a member of the Orthodox and Evangelical churches in Eritrea then it seems you can breathe easy.

The Eritrean government has rejected a claim by the US State Department that it violates religious rights and severely restricts freedom of worship for all but four government-sanctioned religions: Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Catholics, and the Evangelical Church of Eritrea.

Note: The full text of the 2004 International Religious Freedom Report can be found online here.

NEW ORLEANS — A lawsuit filed after a Messianic Jew was blocked from distributing a religious tract at the University of New Orleans because it might offend some people has been settled.

Colombo, Aug 2 - Christian groups are strongly opposing Sri Lanka's move to introduce a bill banning religious conversions, with the Supreme Court also receiving 25 petitions in its favour and 21 against it, placing the government in a tight spot, reports OneWorld.

Though officially illegal, the capital's last Messianic Youth Ministry continues to recruit local Jewish teens

Ruling To Disappoint Cherokee Indian Inmate

MIAMI, Florida, USA, July 16, 2004 — A court in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has ruled in favour of two Christian evangelists who appealed their conviction last year of violating Brazil’s “hate crime” law. The landmark case involving the distribution of gospel tracts to Afro-Brazilian spiritists is the first to test a federal law declaring it a crime to “practice, induce, or incite discrimination” against members of another religion.

California prison officials have been barred by a Sacramento federal judge from imposing discipline or denying sentence reductions based on Muslim inmates' half-inch beards and attendance at religious services.

SALT LAKE CITY — Inmate Phillip Leishman has sued state Corrections Department officials for prohibiting him from having wooden tablets bearing mystical symbols — runes that he says are used in the practice of his pagan religion.

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