FORT PAYNE, Ala. — An appeals court in Alabama has rejected a lesbian’s request to have a judge who also serves as a pastor removed from her divorce proceedings against her husband. Tiara Lycans desires to divorce her husband, Zachary Lycans, and wants the court to grant her custody of their child. However, she is […]
MADISON, Wisc. — A Christian photographer who had a statement on her website advising that she will not shoot same-sex “weddings” is not subject to local public accommodations laws because she doesn’t operate out of a physical storefront, a Wisconsin court said it would rule in a forthcoming opinion. Amy Lawson of Amy Lynn Photography Studio had filed […]
WASHINGTON — A judge in Wyoming who was censured earlier this year for making a comment to the media three years ago that she couldn’t officiate same-sex unions as a Christian, and who consequently lost her position as magistrate, has appealed her case to the U.S. Supreme Court. “This case presents an important free-exercise question,” the petition, […]
BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A lawsuit has been filed challenging a settlement agreement that bans residents in a New Jersey town from making remarks about Islam or Muslims during an upcoming public hearing centering on the forthcoming construction of a mosque. The Thomas More Law Center has filed suit on behalf of a family that […]
CAMBRIDGESHIRE, U.K. — A Christian prison worker in the U.K. who was barred from participating in chapel services after quoting a Scripture that references homosexuality has lost his appeal, as an Employment Appeals Tribunal was not convinced that he had suffered discrimination. The tribunal concluded that the policies at HMP Littlehey, a prison for sex offenders, were […]
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court has returned a case involving a Virginia girl who identifies as a boy and wanted to use the boys’ restroom at school back to the district court to determine whether the matter is moot since the student has now graduated from high school. “[A] crucial threshold question arises in […]
AKRON, Ohio — An Ohio man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for seeking to recruit other Muslims to murder members of the U.S. military. “With this sentence, McNeil is being held accountable for disseminating ISIS’s violent rhetoric, circulating U.S. military personnel information and explicitly calling for the killing of American service members […]
(Evangelical Focus) — A delegation of Spanish evangelical Christians were welcomed at the royal palace La Zarzuela on July 27. King Felipe VI, Queen Letizia and the Justice Minister Rafael Catalá met 14 Protestant leaders. This reception was organised two weeks after the celebration of the 8th Evangelical Congress, in which 1,000 representatives analysed the […]
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A school district in Pennsylvania has agreed to allow students who identify as the opposite sex to use the restroom that corresponds with their “gender identity.” “[T]he parties to this litigation desire to settle the issues raised by Plaintiffs’ complaint and subsequent proceedings without the necessity of further litigation,” the consent judgment signed by […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The federal government has abandoned its quest for a buffer zone around the last remaining abortion facility in Kentucky, which had initially been created after 11 people blocked the doors to the building on Mother’s Day weekend to keep mothers from committing murder. “The United States has withdrawn its motion for a preliminary […]