The Swiss will vote Sunday on imposing stricter rules for claiming conscientious objection to military service, as the war in ...

On January 16, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled in a landmark decision that the extradition of a conscientious objector to the war in Ukraine is permissible. The question was whether the ...

Kim Davis, a Rowan County, Ky., clerk, celebrates her release Sept. 8 from the Carter County Detention center in Grayson, Ky. The Vatican Sept. 30 did not deny reports that while in Washington, Pope ...

Swiss voters have backed imposing stricter rules for claiming conscientious objection to military service. The Swiss voted ...

Swiss voters will decide the fate of a divisive anti-immigration proposal on Sunday to cap the country's population, and ...

MADRID, Spain — A body representing Spain’s medical colleges said on Monday that a government minister’s threat to conscientious objection on abortion is “unacceptable, illegal, and unjust.” The ...

A coalition of religious leaders and veterans has called for a reconsideration of conscientious objection to war, saying that military members should have the right to object to the wars in Iraq and ...

Q. If a service member converts to Islam, can he or she refuse to be deployed to places where he or she would fight fellow Muslims? A. Muslim service members, or others whose religious training or ...

J.E. McNeil remembers well the call she received about a year and a half ago from a doctor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He was of the Muslim faith and had contacted McNeil, a lawyer and head of ...