The Supreme Court of Finland on Thursday heard the landmark case of Päivi Räsänen, a Finnish member of parliament who has ...

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen is praying that she will finally be exonerated of hate speech charges over her biblical views on ...

Finland’s Supreme Court is to hear a landmark free speech case on Thursday involving parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen and ...

Räsänen was subject to numerous grueling interrogations by the police. She was repeatedly asked to explain and defend the words of the Bible. She was promised that if she recanted her words, the ...

The case against Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola will be heard by the Supreme Court of Finland on Thursday. Räsänen, ...

A religious freedom case in Finland may place a chilling effect on free speech around the world and underscores the need to protect the freedom of speech and religion, those involved in the legal ...

I am so used to bad news on the religious liberty and free speech front that it takes me a while to absorb it when good news breaks. This is very, very good news: the Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen scored a ...

Police are investigating a Christian politician in Finland for an alleged "hate crime" because she shared a Bible verse on Facebook to criticize a national church that participated in LGBT Pride ...

Päivi Räsänen is a member of the Finnish Parliament from the Christian Democratic Party, and a practicing Lutheran. She is also facing hate speech investigations for having questioned publicly her own ...

HELSINKI, Finland —The verdict in the closely watched trial of a Finnish Christian MP was announced on Wednesday. A court in Helsinki dismissed all charges against Päivi Räsänen, a physician and ...

I had breakfast this morning in Budapest with a Hungarian-American businessman who follows my work, and reached out to invite me to meet him. “You look just like your Twitter photo,” he said when we ...

Finnish lawmaker Päivi Räsänen is on trial this week for “hate speech” and “ethnic agitation” after publicly sharing in 2019 her biblical, religious views on marriage as between one man and one woman.