PAARL, South Africa – Against the craggy grey-blue Haweqwa mountain range surrounding the wine-growing area of South Africa's Western Cape, a distinctive wooden structure has risen. Wood planks have ...

Michael Wilson sits in his cell at his rural Lawrence home on a recent day. Wilson spends time in the reconfigured shed, studying and contemplating his faith. The 55-year-old Lawrence man has ...

Justices appear divided over whether federal law allows damages for religious rights violations by state prison officials. On Nov. 10, the Supreme Court appeared reluctant to allow an incarcerated ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shorn while he was in ...

Hair is an important part of the Rastafarian faith. But an official at the Achimota School in Ghana told Tyrone Iras Marhguy he would have to cut his dreadlocks before enrolling. Tyrone Iras Marhguy ...

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. >> THIS ONE HERE IS THE ONE I LIKE THE BEST TODAY. >> TO MOST PEOPLE, IT IS MARIJUANA, BUT JESSE SCHWORCK CONSIDERS IT A RELIGIOUS SACRAMENT, PART OF THE WORSHIP AT THIS RASTAFARIAN ...

BULL BAY, Jamaica — The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica”s southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand. Around him at the ...

(RNS) — On May 3, a Rastafarian serving a five-month sentence in in a Louisiana state prison filed a Supreme Court petition to seek damages after his jailers cut his dreadlocks, a hairstyle he said he ...