(Evangelical Focus) — Israel has started to implement the prostitution law, which was passed a year and a half ago in the Knesset (the Israeli parliament), but was due to come into effect in mid-2020. The regulation sanctions those who pay for for sexual services, both on the street and in places used to practice […]
(International Christian Concern) – On July 1, four US government agencies issued an advisory warning that American companies sourcing from Chinese manufacturers may be selling products made using forced labor of religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In their statement, the departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and Homeland Security cited China’s ongoing human […]
REDDING, Calif. — A coalition of religious liberties legal organizations have filed suit on behalf of several churches in California that seek to challenge the State’s recent ban on singing or chanting during indoor religious services, which serves to reduce the transmission of COVID via aerosol particles. The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), […]
LONDON — A judge in the United Kingdom has ruled that while a Christian foster and adoption agency may require applicants to be evangelical Christians, it may not decline to place children in households that identify as both “Christian” and homosexual. Justice Julian Knowles ruled that Cornerstone Adoption and Fostering Service “must change its recruitment […]
After passing the “Amazon Tax,” Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant went on this unhinged rant. She threatens to seize control of the Fortune 500 and overthrow the “racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism.” If you oppose her? “We are coming for you.” pic.twitter.com/2L17D6wScp — Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 7, 2020 SEATTLE, Wash. […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case from a former student at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) who sued the educational institution after his attempts to preach the gospel on campus were twice shut down. Lower courts had declared the case moot as the college changed its free speech policy after […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The gender field will soon no longer appear in the identification cards (IDs) of citizens, the government of the Netherlands has announced. Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven — who is also in charge of emancipation issues — said identifying the gender in ID cards is “unnecessary” and hurts people who identify as […]
WASHINGTON (Kaiser Health News) — The Supreme Court Wednesday settled — at least for now — a decade’s worth of litigation over the women’s health provisions of the Affordable Care Act, ruling 7-2 that employers with a “religious or moral objection” to providing contraceptive coverage to their employees may opt out without penalty. The Trump administration […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — The city council of Somerville, Massachusetts has unanimously passed an ordinance recognizing “polyamorous” domestic partnerships as they could not find a “good reason” to limit romantic relationships to two people. “It validates their existence. It validates the way they love,” council member Lance Davis told NBC Boston. Polyamory is defined as “the practice […]
CHICAGO — It was a bloody Fourth of July weekend in Chicago as dozens were shot and 15 were killed by ongoing gun violence. Two of those fatalities were minors. “You gotta stop this killing. … These are innocent kids. She was only seven years old. She always said, ‘I love you,’” Shelley Fulton told […]