Richard B. Katskee is Legal Director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Symbols have power. They communicate complex ideas, often more effectively and more forcefully than mere ...

Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissented. The Supreme Court on Thursday said a 40-foot, 16-ton Latin cross war memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland, can stand, upholding the constitutionality of a ...

WASHINGTON — For more than 90 years, a huge concrete cross has dominated part of Bladensburg, Maryland, a Washington suburb. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will be asked to decide whether it should ...

BLADENSBURG, Md. (Reuters) - When Fred Edwords first drove by the 40-foot-tall (12 meters) concrete cross that has stood for nearly a century on a busy intersection in suburban Maryland outside the ...

The topic today for the Supreme Court was a white cross five feet tall. It was erected high on top of an outcropping of rocks on a huge national land preserve in the Mojave Desert. The case tests when ...

The Supreme Court ruled that a 40-foot cross honoring World War I veterans can remain on public land in Maryland and continue to be maintained through taxpayer dollars. The decision was decided 7 to 2 ...

Borough leaders were told an illuminated cross and star celebrating the holidays in a public park are unconstitutional. The cross and star are in a public park in Honesdale. A Newswatch 16 ...

"Mount Calvary" (a painting by William H. Johnson, ca. 1944/ Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation) In the fall, Catholics and some other Christian churches celebrate the ...

The ankh, Egypt’s symbol of life, looks strikingly like the Christian cross. While the two aren’t directly connected, the rare crux ansata shows a fascinating overlap.

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie issued new policies Wednesday allowing religious symbols to be publicly displayed in VA facilities nationwide. “Effective July 3, these changes ...

One of the most profound differences between the American and French views of religious freedom is our treatment of religious symbols in the public square. America’s Founders envisioned a public ...