She was raised inside a religious community that saw the outside world as corrupt and dangerous. From childhood, she stood on protest lines and repeated beliefs she never questioned. Years later, ...

American religious history is rife with protest movements and civil disobedience. Yet it is rare for political protests to happen inside a house of worship. That is part of what makes the new case ...

(AP) — Civil disobedience is by nature violating the law to bring attention to a cause. Famously, civil disobedience by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others led to landmark legislation during ...

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, the anti-gay religious group known for its protest of military funerals, have appeared at Perk Plaza, where they have a permit to speak.