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Click here to view original article citizen.digital A cross is seen on the roof of a church. REUTERS/FILE All churches and religious organisations will be required to submit financial returns every year to the government if a proposed draft law to curb religious extremism and extortion is passed. The draft…
Click here to view original article news.bloomberglaw.com Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner speaks to reporters on Nov. 7, 2022. Prosecutor defended rule as public safety measure Jury could view comments as hostile to religion The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office cannot escape a lawsuit from an employee who was fired for…
Click here to view original article thenationonlineng.net City Beats Lagos court In a landmark judgment delivered by Honourable Justice O. J. Awope of the Ikeja Judicial Division, Lagos State, a statutory marriage was nullified due to its contradiction with an earlier Islamic marriage conducted by the couple. In the case…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2023. Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com Less than a month before Oklahoma school districts begin classes, state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters on Wednesday issued guidance for how they might incorporate his directive, issued in late June, that the Bible be taught in every classroom. “Immediate and complete implementation of…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com Less than a month before Oklahoma school districts begin classes, state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters on Wednesday issued guidance for how they might incorporate his directive, issued in late June, that the Bible be taught in every classroom. “Immediate and complete implementation of…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com Instruction about the Bible can be legal – the question is how it’s done, and what the intent is. Pascal Deloche/Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach the Bible ,…
Click here to view original article apnews.com 1 of 3 | Ryan Tucker, left and David Cortman, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, and Yakima Union Gospel Mission CEO Mike Johnson, right, speak to reporters outside the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday, July 19, 2024.…
Click here to view original article accesswdun.com BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana won’t take official steps to implement a law requiring the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November as a lawsuit makes its way through the courts, according to…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com Ryan Tucker, left and David Cortman, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, and Yakima Union Gospel Mission CEO Mike Johnson, right, speak to reporters outside the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday, July 19, 2024. They are challenging a…
Click here to view original article www.malaysiasun.com A Washington state anti-discrimination law was challenged by the shelter in a federal appeals court this week It would require the Christian homeless shelter to hire LGBTQ+ people and others who are against its religious beliefs, including those on sexuality and marriage Union…
Click here to view original article kpel965.com Here’s When Louisiana Schools Can Expect to See Ten Commandments Posted in Classrooms Louisiana won’t take official steps to implement a law requiring the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November as a lawsuit…
Click here to view original article wsvn.com BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana won’t take official steps to implement a law requiring the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November as a lawsuit makes its way through the courts, according to…
Click here to view original article www.the-journal.com Judge agrees to wait until at least November for some classrooms A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol on June 20 in Atlanta. John Bazemore,/The Associated Press John Bazemore BATON…
Click here to view original article apnews.com BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday to block Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom, a measure they contend is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the suit include parents of…
Click here to view original article www.nwaonline.com Measure requires schools to display Ten Commandments A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta in June. (AP/John Bazemore) BATON ROUGE — Louisiana won’t take official steps to implement…
Click here to view original article apnews.com 1 of 3 | Ryan Tucker, left and David Cortman, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, and Yakima Union Gospel Mission CEO Mike Johnson, right, speak to reporters outside the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday, July 19, 2024.…
Click here to view original article www.knkx.org Ryan Tucker, left and David Cortman, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, and Yakima Union Gospel Mission CEO Mike Johnson, right, speak to reporters outside the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday, July 19, 2024. They are challenging a…
Click here to view original article komonews.com The current case arises out of a 2017 lawsuit filed by Matt Woods, a bisexual Christian man who was denied a job as an attorney at a legal aid clinic operated by the Union Gospel Mission in Seattle. (KOMO News) TOPICS: Christian homeless…
Click here to view original article www.newsday.com SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers for a Christian homeless shelter are scheduled to be in a federal appeals court Friday to challenge a Washington state anti-discrimination law that would require the charity to hire LGBTQ+ people and others who do not share its religious…
Click here to view original article www.courthousenews.com MANHATTAN (CN) — The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a mixed decision Friday that New York public accommodation laws do not violate the religious freedom and free association rights of a wedding photographer who feared prosecution for turning away same-sex clients.…
Click here to view original article www.sltrib.com In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach the Bible , he’s been defending his mandate . For example, he claimed in an interview on NewsNation that the Bible had “been removed from classrooms, and we’re saying,…
Click here to view original article theconversation.com In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach the Bible , he’s been defending his mandate . For example, he claimed in an interview on NewsNation that the Bible had “been removed from classrooms, and we’re saying,…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com Instruction about the Bible can be legal – the question is how it’s done, and what the intent is. Pascal Deloche/Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (The Conversation) — In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach…
Click here to view original article baptistnews.com The Oklahoma Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a decision by the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board to grant a charter school license to a sectarian Catholic school. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would have been the nation’s first sectarian charter school…