Religion

The Montana Department of Revenue is defending its exclusion of religious schools from the state's School Choice program.

An association of Christian schools and a Missoula family are challenging a Montana rule that excludes religious schools from a program created to provide scholarships for private-school students.

Pope Francis gave a historic address today when he spoke before a rare joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill Thursday morning. His speech (full text below) touched on numerous issues that have been heavily debated in Washington — climate change, the death penalty, religious freedom, immigration and more — but he focused often on the current refugee crisis in Europe.

HELENA, Mont. - The Montana Legislature has turned away a proposal that if enacted by voters would have given people grounds to disobey any state laws that violate their religion.

A dispute between the Big Sky Hutterite Colony and the Montana Department of Labor could help decide how courts rule on religious infringement cases.

A federal judge is temporarily preventing the Obama administration from forcing a Christian publishing company to provide its employees with certain contraceptives under the new health care law

While most young boys are focused on playing video games, Ezekiel Stoddard of Temple Hills, MD, is more concerned with preaching the gospel to his congregation. You see, Stoddard recently became an ordained minister at only 11-years-old.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — New claims of sexual and physical abuse by Roman Catholic clerics and nuns spanning decades in eastern Montana have been lodged in state court in Great Falls. The allegations were detailed in court documents filed Tuesday in a pending lawsuit against the Great Falls-Billings Diocese...

A pastor's outrageous claim that a 100-mile electrified fence should be used to end homosexuality leads to all kinds of misinterpretation.

The separation of church and state doesn’t mean religious leaders can’t express political opinions. And in the wake of President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage there has been talk that some houses of worship may encourage their flock not to vote for the president in 2012 to protest his reversal on the issue.