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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 www.ncregister.com Religious liberty scholars from the Notre Dame Law School, Seton Hall University, and the University of St. Thomas School of Law also filed a brief backing the Native Americans. Numerous other religious groups also filed amicus briefs. The Catholic bishops are backing a…
Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com U.S. Supreme Court. | Credit: PT Hamilton/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 8, 2024 / 17:30 pm A charter school in Oklahoma is aiming to be the first publicly-funded religious charter school in the United States after it appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on…
Click here to view original article www.ncregister.com St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School petitioned the high court to review the decision on the basis of Supreme Court precedent and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Kate Quiñones/CNA Education October 8,…
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.upi.com An appeals court Thursday upheld Colorado’s ban on minors receiving conversion therapy. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | Sept. 13 (UPI) — An appeals court Thursday ruled against a challenge to Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, saying the state can continue…
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 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…
Click here to view original article www.wuft.org Then-Ocala Mayor Kent Guinn, left, talks to Edrige Rivers, 51, at a 2014 prayer vigil. A federal court ruled the vigil unconstitutional, and the city of Ocala is appealing the decision. (WUFT file photo) TALLAHASSEE — After a federal judge ruled that a…
Click here to view original article www.wcjb.com OCALA, Fla. (NSF) — After a federal judge ruled that a prayer vigil in a town square was unconstitutional, the city of Ocala has taken a long-running lawsuit to a federal appeals court. Attorneys for Ocala last week filed a notice that is…
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.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.shreveporttimes.com Will Louisiana consider mandating religious prayer in schools after it became the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school and university classroom? Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry was asked specifically if he believes organized prayer should…
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 justthenews.com (The Center Square) – (The Center Square) — Connecticut’s highest court has rejected another legal challenge to the state’s pandemic-era law repealing religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements. Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruling rejected several claims by the plaintiffs in the case, who argued…
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…