WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Christian institutions have filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to challenge a requirement surrounding what has been dubbed as the Obamacare abortion pill mandate. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represented the popular craft chain Hobby Lobby before the high court last year, filed the […]
WASHINGTON — A prominent church-state separation group led by an ordained United Church of Christ minister has launched a national effort to fight religious freedom laws that seek to provide conscience protections for people of faith. Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) announced its “Protect Thy Neighbor” campaign on Tuesday to combat […]
WASHINGTON — Administrators from Christian and Catholic schools nationwide have signed on to a letter urging Congress to pass a law that would protect religious schools from punishment over their biblical beliefs on marriage. Daniel Egeler, the president of the Association of Christian Schools International, Al Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, […]
POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A Christian student in Florida has obtained legal assistance after her humanities professor gave her four zeroes for refusing to conform to assignments that she believed to be anti-Christian indoctrination. Grace Lewis, 16, (pictured) is a dual-enrolled student enrolled in a virtual school from home. She has been taking college courses […]
LITTLE ROCK — The governor of Arkansas says that he won’t sign the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in light of its current language, just a day after the legislature sent the bill to his desk. H.B. 1228 passed the Arkansas House of Representatives 67-21 on Tuesday, sending the legislation to Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson […]
TURLOCK, Calif. – A Christian campus organization has lost recognition from its university and been accused of “religious discrimination” for not allowing non-Christians to hold leadership positions in the group. Chi Alpha is a national student ministry organization with a presence in over 300 college campuses across the United States. According to the group’s website, […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered an appeals court to reconsider its denial of an injunction to a prominent religious university that had challenged the abortion pill mandate in Obamacare. The University of Notre Dame had sued the Obama administration in federal court in 2013, stating that its mandate violated the Catholic institution’s right to religious freedom, […]
WASHINGTON — Twenty-four members of Congress have signed a letter addressed to Army Secretary John McHugh in support of a chaplain who was recently reprimanded for citing the Bible during a suicide prevention training session. As previously reported, Col. David Fivecoat, the commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, Ga., ordered Chaplain (CPT) […]
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — A Canadian court has ruled that an educational society in Nova Scotia acted improperly when it denied accreditation to a Christian law school because of its biblical beliefs on human sexuality. “I have concluded that the NSBS did not have the authority to do what it did,” Justice Jamie Campbell of […]
FORT BENNING, Ga. — The U.S. Army has issued a “letter of concern” to a Georgia chaplain for citing the Bible during a recent suicide prevention training session. According to reports, Col. David Fivecoat, the commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, Ga., ordered Chaplain (CPT) Joe Lawhorn, to come to his […]