DANIELSVILLE, Ga. — A prominent atheist activist organization and a nationally-recognized humanist group are demanding that a Georgia school district remove two Scripture verses from a sculpture that sits outside of the field house of a local high school. The Madison,Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) and the Washington, D.C.-based American Humanist Association (AHA) recently […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina state senator who has supported the critiquing of evolution in public schools says Christianity is being systematically outlawed from public schools and replaced with Darwinism. Mike Fair represents Senate District 6 in South Carolina and is a member of the state’s Education Oversight Committee. As previously reported, Fair objected […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — A high school football coach in Arizona has been suspended for two weeks for joining his team in prayer. Tom Brittain is the head varsity coach for Tempe Preparatory Academy, a state funded charter school. According to reports, Brittain recently asked one of the players on his team to lead the group in prayer, […]
Christian students across the nation and around the world gathered at their school flagpoles this morning for the annual ‘See You at the Pole’ day, a student-led prayer event that has been a much-observed tradition for over 20 years. “See You at the Pole” began in the town of Burleson, Texas, a suburb of Fort […]
MEDINA, Ohio — The superintendent of a school district in Ohio has put an end to a prayer chain that had been running between a local principal and teachers at his school, which served as a means to support the sick and abused. “I’m a man of faith who wants good for all, but I’m […]
TEMECULA, Calif. — A Christian legal organization in California is denouncing officials at a charter school in the state for removing books from its library simply because they were deemed to be Christian. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), based in Sacramento, reports that Springs Charter Schools, also known as River Springs Charter Schools, recently targeted […]
WASHINGTON – New details have emerged about an enormous Bible museum in Washington, D.C., that will feature thousands of biblical artifacts once it opens in early 2017. Steve Green is the Christian president of the popular American craft chain Hobby Lobby. As previously reported, Green opened a temporary Bible exhibit in Israel last year to […]
PORTLAND — A former Portland-area teacher who was escorted from his local high school by police over his continued opposition to Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against his school district after his teaching contract was terminated following internal scrutiny. As previously reported, Bill Diss, an 11-year math and computer science teacher at Benson High […]
VENTURA, Calif. — At least two Christian legal organizations have sent a letter to a California principal after she banned her school’s booster club from selling Chick-fil-A sandwiches for its football fundraiser due to the company’s stance on the institution of marriage. As previously reported, Val Wyatt, principal of Ventura High School, recently told the Ventura […]
JONESBORO, Ark. — Following a firestorm of controversy over the issue, officials at Arkansas State University (ASU) have decided to allow members of the university’s football team to wear a cross decal on their helmets—as long as the players personally choose to affix them and pay for the stickers themselves. As previously reported, the decal […]