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Senate GOP Claim FBI Erased Records Connected to Memo Targeting Catholics

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 02, 2024 35 Comments

Fox News reported that at least 16 Senate Republicans demanded the FBI provide the chamber with a "coherent and complete response" regarding a memo targeting Catholics. The FBI insisted only the Richmond field office had anything to do with the memo claiming a connection between "traditional...

Appeals Court Grants Injunction for Catholic Organization After City Forced Removal of ‘Religious Displays’

Posted by Terrance Kible on September 19, 2023 26 Comments

The group 'is a religious organization whose mission is to further the work of Saint Padre Pio—the patron saint of healing.'...

Court: City Cannot Keep Catholic Farmer Opposed to Gay Marriage Out of Farmer’s Market

Posted by Terrance Kible on September 03, 2023 24 Comments

"The City's decision to exclude Country Mill Farms from the 2017 East Lansing Farmer's Market constituted a burden on Plaintiffs' religious beliefs."...

Judge Sanctions Southwest’s Attorneys, Orders ‘Religious-Liberty Training’ by Alliance Defending Freedom

Posted by Terrance Kible on August 15, 2023 14 Comments

The sanctions came after Southwest Airlines' "willful" distortion the court's order in a religious liberty case: "the Court didn't stutter."...

Appeals Court: No First Amendment Right to Religious Exemption From Vaccine Mandate

Posted by Terrance Kible on August 11, 2023 64 Comments

The appeals court also rejected the plaintiffs' privacy and medical freedom, equal protection, and childrearing arguments....

Lawsuit: Massachusetts Rejected Catholic Foster Parent Applicants Over Beliefs About Marriage and Sexuality

Posted by Jane Coleman on August 10, 2023 11 Comments

Massachusetts requires foster families to “support and respect a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”...

Guam Legislature Overrides Veto, Approves Religious Charter Schools Amid Dueling Constitutional Arguments

Posted by Terrance Kible on July 27, 2023 18 Comments

Governor: Religious charter schools violate the Establishment Clause. Legislature, Attorney General: The Free Exercise Clause prevents Guam from denying publicly available funds to religious charter schools....

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NY Times Runs Yet Another Suspiciously-Timed Hit Piece on Hasidic Yeshivas, Casts Them as “Lawbreakers”

Posted by Jane Coleman on July 03, 2023 23 Comments

NYT dropped the article just before the Sabbath of a holiday weekend, so that those affected could not respond for at least 24 hours....

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Christian Web Designer Who Refused to Design Sites for Gay Weddings

Posted by Terrance Kible on June 30, 2023 59 Comments

"The framers designed the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to protect the 'freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think.'"...

Court Blocks Federal Civil Rights Agency From Suing Christian-Owned Business Over LGBT Firings

Posted by Terrance Kible on June 24, 2023 14 Comments

"Being forced to employ someone to represent the company who behaves in a manner directly violative of the company’s convictions is a substantial burden," the three-judge panel of Republican appointees found....

North Korea: Christians in Possession of Bible Face Execution, Prison — Including Children

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on May 28, 2023 18 Comments

"70,000 Christians have been imprisoned in camps along with those believers from other religions."...

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Biden Admin Stopped Threatening OK Catholic Hospital System Over the Chapel’s Sanctuary Lamp

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 05, 2023 46 Comments

The Department of Health & Human Services told the system "it would lose its ability to accept Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)" if it did not remove the candle from the chapel....

Fact Checking Media Claims of Israel’s Anti-Christian Bias

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 22, 2023 12 Comments

Number of Christian worshipers limited based on church's own security assessment. Similar restrictions also on Jewish pilgrims at Mount Meron....

Yeshiva U Fight Against Order It Recognize Student Pride Alliance Suffers Blow When Denied “Leave To Appeal” to NY High Ct

Posted by Jane Coleman on April 02, 2023 19 Comments

YU's lawyer: “The parties will press forward with discovery,” after which Yeshiva can appeal to the Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the United States Supreme Court.”...

Court Strikes NY State Regulations Threatening Orthodox Jewish Yeshivas Under “Substantial Equivalency” Test

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 24, 2023 28 Comments

Court finds the state education department exceeded its authority in requiring religious schools to provide the substantial equivalent of secular education: "Parents should be given a reasonable opportunity to prove that the substantial equivalency requirements for their children's education are satisfied by instruction provided through...

Equal Protection Project Files Opposition to Biden Education Dept. Rule Rescinding Trump-Pence Campus Religious Protections

Posted by James Nault on March 22, 2023 3 Comments

Proposal would remove Trump-Pence era regulation mandating that higher education treat campus religious groups and secular groups equally...

NYC Comptroller to Yeshiva University: Recognize LGBTQ Club or Risk Public Funding

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 03, 2023 45 Comments

Comptroller warns: "I must urge your institution to change course and offer a secure environment for your LGBTQ+ students and staff to create a supportive space to rightfully express their full selves."...

Eric Adams: ‘When We Took Prayers Out of Schools, Guns Came Into Schools’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 01, 2023 39 Comments

"Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body, church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies."...

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