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Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com The Catholic bishops are backing a suit by Apache Stronghold, a coalition of Native Americans and their supporters, in its lawsuit against the federal government. The lawsuit argues that the coalition’s freedom of religion was violated when the federal government announced its intention…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com People stand in line to tour the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C., on Monday, when the court’s 2024-25 term started. Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI Oct. 7 (UPI) — Native Americans trying to protect their sacred land, a Rastafarian prisoner…
Click here to view original article www.ncronline.org The U.S. Supreme Court building is pictured in Washington June 24. (OSV News/Reuters/Nathan Howard) The U.S. Supreme Court building is pictured in Washington June 24. (OSV News/Reuters/Nathan Howard) Staff Reporter View Author Profile Join the Conversation Send your thoughts to Letters to the…
Click here to view original article www.upi.com Supreme Court justices, who have begun their new term. are: Seated from left are Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel A. Alito and Elena Kagan. Standing from left are Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M.…
Click here to view original article www.star-telegram.com An event at Mansfield Lake Ridge prompted questions of legality and the issue of the separation of church and state. Getty Images | Royalty Free Getty Images/iStockphoto In Reality Check stories, Star-Telegram journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com A federal appeals court has ruled a pair of lawsuits against Michigan’s anti-discrimination law filed by groups claiming it infringes on their religious liberties can continue, reversing a decision made last year by a lower court to dismiss the lawsuits. In a 37-page…
Click here to view original article www.usatoday.com A federal appeals court has ruled a pair of lawsuits against Michigan’s anti-discrimination law filed by groups claiming it infringes on their religious liberties can continue, reversing a decision made last year by a lower court to dismiss the lawsuits. In a 37-page…
Click here to view original article www.baltimoresun.com A group of New York nuns are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block New York regulation requiring faith-based organizations to cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans. In a filing Tuesday, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York joined a coalition…
Click here to view original article justthenews.com (The Center Square) – (The Center Square) — A group of New York nuns are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block New York regulation requiring faith-based organizations to cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans. In a filing Tuesday, the Roman…
Click here to view original article www.thecentersquare.com St. Patrick’s Cathedral (New York, N.Y.) (The Center Square) — A group of New York nuns are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block New York regulation requiring faith-based organizations to cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans. In a filing Tuesday,…
Click here to view original article www.ncregister.com First Liberty Institute asked the U.S Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to reverse a lower court decision. Bangor Christian Schools building in Bangor, Maine. (photo: Courtesy photo / First Liberty Institute) Kate Quiñones/CNA Nation September 12, 2024 A Christian school on…
Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com Bangor Christian Schools building in Bangor, Maine. | Credit: Photo courtesy of First Liberty Institute CNA Staff, Sep 11, 2024 / 16:11 pm A Christian school on Sept. 3 filed an appeal against Maine for attempting to dodge a U.S. Supreme Court ruling…
Click here to view original article www.ncronline.org Notre Dame football players at the Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz. 2016. University of Notre Dame football players are seen during the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., in this 2016 file photo. (OSV News/Mark J. Rebilas, Action Images via USA TODAY Sports and Reuters)…
Click here to view original article www.christianitytoday.com National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville Bob Smietana / RNS A group of evangelical broadcasters who hosted Donald Trump at their national conference earlier this year are suing the Internal Revenue Service over the so-called Johnson Amendment, a tax law that bars nonprofits…
Click here to view original article www.ucanews.com A federal appeals court allows religious schools to receive federal funding despite challenges from LGBTQ+ students People send out love during the Boston Pride Parade in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 8. (Photo: AFP) Updated: September 04, 2024 05:03 AM GMT A federal appeals…
Click here to view original article gaycitynews.com The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Wikimedia Commons/Coolcaesar Facebook Share Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal law, provides that educational institutions that get federal money may not discriminate in their educational programs “on the basis of…
Click here to view original article www.pepperdine.edu Caruso School of Law Expanding on the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law’s many law, faith, and religion course offerings, the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics launched a groundbreaking new course in fall 2023 titled Current Issues in Law, Faith, and Religion.…
Click here to view original article www.forbes.com Should taxpayers fund this?getty For the second time in six months, a U. S. District judge has ruled in Maine that private schools that accept state funds can be required to follow state anti-discrimination rules. The case is another epilog to a Supreme…
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Click here to view original article religionnews.com Voters fill out ballots at a polling place inside the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (RNS) — The role of religion and politics has always been controversial in America, from its inception to…
Click here to view original article www.mainepublic.org St. Dominic Academy in Auburn, Maine. A judge has ruled against a Catholic school challenging a state law that prohibits discrimination by religious schools receiving public funds. Auburn’s St. Dominic Academy brought the lawsuit about a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled…
Click here to view original article www.thecollegefix.com Political science professors at conservative and Christian colleges are split over the constitutionality of a new Louisiana law that requires all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The law already faces a legal challenge from several families as well…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com (Image by Sebastian/Pixabay/Creative Commons) (RNS) — It might seem strange that an Orthodox Jewish rabbi would side with a Christian adoption agency that refused to accommodate a Jewish couple. But I do. Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram, of Knox County, Tennessee, wanted to adopt…
Click here to view original article www.delawareonline.com The Delaware Supreme Court has agreed with two lower courts that dismissed lawsuits filed by two pastors seeking to prevent the state’s governor from imposing future restrictions on religious worship. In its opinion issued Thursday, the court said freedom of religion is an…
Click here to view original article www.secularism.org.uk NSS urges minister to update "unfair, confusing and restrictive" wedding laws in England and Wales. Photo by Brittney Weng on Unsplash (cropped) The new government should update wedding laws in England and Wales for greater freedom and fairness for couples of all religions…