Category: Religious Freedom
UK: PM warned that conversion therapy ban ‘likely to criminalise church leaders’
Church leaders have called on the Government to drop its highly controversial plans to ban...
Read MoreGeorgia police officer resigns after being put on leave for defending traditional marriage online
A Georgia police officer has resigned after he was told by superiors that he could not share his...
Read MoreAlabama governor adds another layer of protection to religious freedom
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed an executive order Friday to protect religious freedom...
Read MoreIt’s not race or religion that threatens Malays and Malaysia but corruption, says PM
The real threat to the survival of the ethnic Malay community and Malaysia as a whole is...
Read MoreIn Victory for Religious Freedom, Student Will Be Allowed to Wear ‘Jesus Loves Me’ Mask at School
“The principal calls me, and she’s like, ‘We’re going to have to have Lydia swap her mask out,’” Booth recounted, adding that the principal said it was against school policy “to have religious symbols or gestures on her mask.” But upon inspecting the school handbook, Booth says, the only prohibitions the principal could point to referred to “drug culture, profanity, [and] obscenities.”
Read MoreColorado Condemns Jack Phillips For Being A Devout Christian, Again
“Free speech is for everyone. No one should be forced to express a message that violates their core beliefs,” ADF Senior Counsel Jake Warner and Phillips’s lawyer said in a statement. “Over a decade ago, Colorado officials began targeting Jack, misusing state law to force him to say things he does not believe. Then an activist attorney continued that crusade. This cruelty must stop.”
Read More‘We Are Stunned’: Machete Attacks at Churches in Spain Leave One Dead, Four Wounded
Mayor José Landaluce said, “We are all stunned by these acts, which have filled us with pain. Algeciras has always been a city where concord and tolerance reign, despite incidents like this that create an image that does not correspond to reality.”
Read MorePhilippine bill promoting religious freedom gets House nod
The bill mandates the protection of every person’s right to choose a religion or religious group, the right to exercise or express religious belief, practices, acts or activities, the right to act in accordance with conscience, the right to propagate religious beliefs, the right to disseminate religious publications, the right to religious worship and ceremonies, the right to organizational independence and the right against discrimination in employment.
Read MoreLawsuit Claims Missouri’s Ban on Abortion Violates Freedom of Religion
The abortion lobby has long said that clergy has no business butting into a woman’s decision about her pregnancy. Apparently, things have changed. A coalition of liberal, pro-abortion clergy in Missouri is challenging the constitutionality of that state’s 8-week abortion ban that went into effect because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June 2022 overturning Roe v. Wade. Thirteen religious leaders, represented by the National Women’s Law Center and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, allege in a state court lawsuit that Missouri’s “trigger law,” which passed in 2019 as House Bill 126 (HB 126), and became effective when the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, violates the Missouri Constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom. Religious freedom? How does the state’s interest in protecting human life violate anyone’s religious freedom? According to the lawsuit, the Missouri law’s preamble, which invokes God as the ultimate giver of life, transforms the bill into a religious statute that “enshrined religious precepts into law.”
Read MoreCVS Goes Woke, Revokes Religious Accommodations for Pro-life Christians, Prompts Lawsuits
CVS is sending a message that religious health care workers are not welcome and need not apply.
Read MoreBy Discarding Religion And Tradition, Modern Art Turns Men Into Morlocks
Without the religious beliefs of ancient Egypt, there would be no pyramids, physical manifestations of the sun god’s rays; without belief in the Olympians, the Greeks would not have invented the theatre, the space where the gods interacted with mortal men; without Christianity, the medieval cathedral, heaven carved out in stone and glass, would have stayed a pipe dream.
Read MoreLosing their religion: why US churches are on the decline
As the US adjusts to an increasingly non-religious population, thousands of churches are closing...
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