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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 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.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.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.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.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 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.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 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 www.union-bulletin.com Joe Kennedy, former assistant coach, during football practice at Bremerton High School. Kennedy returned to his job after a Supreme Court ruling said he was allowed to pray at games — but he called it quits after just one game. A new law…
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.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…
Click here to view original article www.aclu.org The justice statue in front of the Oklahoma state flag. In a win for the separation of church and state, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that Oklahoma’s approval of the nation’s first religious public charter school violates the state constitution and charter-school statute,…
Click here to view original article www.washingtonexaminer.com A group of left-wing civil liberties organizations filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a new Louisiana law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. The American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the…
Click here to view original article nondoc.com Community journalism with context Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond shakes hands with Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Phil Sechler ahead of oral arguments before the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (Tres Savage) Students who signed up to attend St. Isidore of…