CONCORD — A mother in New Hampshire will no longer be allowed to pray on school property after district officials decided to put an end to the practice following a complaint from an atheist activist organization. Lizarda Urena has been praying on the steps of the Concord High School auditorium every morning at approximately 7 […]
LEWES, Del. — A school board in Delaware is set to vote tonight on whether or not to approve an elective high school course that would examine the Bible’s influence on world history. The Cape Henlopen School Board has been split on the move, which was introduced by member Sandi Minard, who told the News-Journal […]
A Christian homeschooling family that has been fighting the U.S. Department of Justice in an effort to avoid deportation to their homeland of Germany will now appeal their legal challenge to the nation’s highest court. Ewe and Hannelore Romeike have been battling the matter in the courts for several years while continuing to raise their six children in […]
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – A religious liberties advocacy group has mailed a letter to a school district in southeastern Michigan, asking them to revise a controversial school prayer policy that has put a voluntary practice of student-led, post-game prayer in jeopardy. Bloomfield Hills Schools (BHS) generated a sizable controversy earlier this year when one of their […]
SPRINGBORO – Following complaints from a national atheist organization and various community members, a school district in southwestern Ohio announced it will be pulling two controversial community education courses that outline America’s Christian heritage. From July 9th through September 24th, faculty at Springboro Community Schools had planned to facilitate two courses on the U.S. Constitution. One […]
FRANKFORT — A nationally-recognized Christian legal organization has sent a letter to school districts throughout the state of Kentucky in an effort to combat an attempt by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to end the distribution of Gideons Bibles in public schools. William Sharp of the ACLU had sent a three-page letter to 174 […]
PASADENA – Thirty years after an influential Christian seminary in California specifically labeled homosexuality a ‘concern,’ the school has officially accepted its first on-campus homosexual student group. Since its founding in 1947, Fuller Theological Seminary (FTS) has grown into a leading Christian school, with the Los Angeles Times recently describing it as “arguably the most […]
BATON ROUGE – Thanks to legal support from a religious rights advocacy group, a Sunday school ministry in Louisiana can once again hold events in a public park after being forced by officials in 2010 to stop the public meetings. In 2005, after receiving permission from Baton Rouge’s Recreation and Park Commission, Voices of Mercy […]
BERKELEY — A video was recently posted on YouTube that captures a barefoot atheist jogger screaming at the top of his lungs for nearly ten minutes at a Christian man holding a sign in opposition of atheism. The video, entitled How Not to Defend Atheism, begins as a man stands quietly holding a sign on […]
ST. PAUL — A sixth grade student in Minnesota has won her right to share pro-life literature with her classmates following a federal lawsuit filed on her behalf by a Christian legal organization. As previously reported, in February of this year, Annie Zinos distributed fliers regarding the issue of abortion to her classmates during lunchtime. One […]