A court has acquitted a 62-year-old Catholic man of baseless blasphemy charges after the complainant said he had “forgiven” ...

Across Europe and North America, the concept of blasphemy is re-entering public life, not necessarily as a formal criminal ...

Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, violation of these measures can result in ...

Ishtiaq Saleem, a Christian sanitation worker and father from Islamabad, Pakistan, is awaiting a possible death penalty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. blasphemy laws reflect a complex fight for the freedom of religion and speech Getty Images Some 79 countries around the ...

Irish voters head to the polls on Friday to decide whether or not to remove the offence of blasphemy from their constitution. Is Religious Education on its way out? Majority of British people say ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia-- At least 200,000 conservative Muslims rallied in the Indonesian capital on Friday in the second major protest in a month against its minority Christian governor who is being ...

You simply have to show that someone in the government has gone beyond his legal authority, or exercised it irrationally. Which is precisely what the Free Speech Union believes Steve Reed, the ...

Indonesia and Ireland are very different societies, but in both countries talking about religion can get you in trouble with the law. On Tuesday, the Christian governor of Jakarta, the Indonesian ...