Category: Religious Freedom
Persecution Watchdog’s Warning: Canadian Bill Could ‘Send Christians to Jail’ for Quoting Bible
“This is what the dictators and the despots do overseas to strangle Christianity or whatever faith,” he said. “They say, ‘Oh, we have religious freedom, but not in the public sphere.’ So, it’s the same game.”
Read MoreFired Biology Professor Fights Back and Wins, Has a Message For Fellow Christians
A Texas college professor who said he was fired after university leaders reportedly found his teachings too “religious” has been reinstated to his position more than a year after being terminated.
Read MoreNorth Dakota judge rules Christian groups can’t be forced to fund “gender-affirming” care for minors
A North Dakota federal judge has ruled that Christian organizations, companies, and groups cannot be compelled by the Biden administration to fund “gender-affirming” care for minors. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor determined that mandates from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) infringe upon the religious beliefs of the Christian Employers Alliance (CEA), leading to this significant verdict.
Read MoreReligious Freedom Deserves a Right of Its Own
Religion is a basic good for all human beings everywhere, therefore religious freedom is a universal human right. It is neither unfair nor parochial, but a requirement of justice.
Read MoreTexas fire dept. chaplain sues after he was dismissed for opposing men in women’s sports
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a former volunteer chaplain of the Austin Fire Department, Dr. Andrew Fox, filed a motion Tuesday asking a federal court to protect his free speech and religious freedom after city officials fired him for sharing his religious views on his personal blog.
Fox is an ordained minister who helped start Austin’s fire chaplaincy program and served as the city’s lead chaplain – a volunteer position – for eight years. After sharing on his personal blog the fact that men and women are biologically different and his view that men should not compete on women’s sports teams, city officials demanded that Fox apologize, and then they proceeded to fire him.
Read MoreUptick in attacks on Catholic parishes reveals hostility to faith, religious liberty
The report found that attacks on churches are at an all-time high, occurring in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Specifically, the report documented more than 430 incidents in 2023, double the figure for 2022, amounting to an 800% increase since 2018 or an average of 39 attacks per month. These included vandalism, arson and attempts at arson, bomb threats, interruption of worship, and gun-related incidents.
Read MorePope Francis to the world’s children: ‘If we really want to be happy, we need to pray’
Pope Francis has issued a message to the world’s children in anticipation of the Church’s first-ever World Children’s Day, which will take place in Rome from May 25–26, reminding them that the key to happiness lies in cultivating a prayer life and personal relationship with Christ, which in turn forms the basis of broader social action.
Read MoreConservative Leaders Urge Lawmakers to Back Amendment Protecting Traditional Views on Marriage
If adopted, the Roy amendment would prohibit the government from engaging in “any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction” regarding marriage between a man and a woman, according to the text.
Read MoreQuebec’s highest court upholds law banning public servants from wearing religious symbols
The new ruling overrides the Quebec Superior Court’s 2021 ruling which exempted the Montreal English school board from the province’s secularism law which prohibits public servants from wearing cross or other religious symbols.
Read MoreTime Magazine’s Insulting Depiction of Christian Martyrdom
For Time to give an international platform to such ignorance is inexcusable. The Christian martyrs did not “choose” to die, nor did they narcissistically play God by ending their own lives on their own terms to make a shocking political point.
The reality is that they were hunted down like animals, tortured, and then brutally murdered by their government because they refused to renounce their faith—and, in particular, their savior, Jesus Christ.
Read MoreHulu Rejected Texas Church’s Ad Twice—Until a Law Firm Asked Why
Hulu has reversed its decision to reject an advertisement for a Texas church’s weeknight service, after spurning it twice as being “religious indoctrination.”
Read MoreTennessee passes bill allowing officials not to perform same-sex marriages
A new Tennessee law will allow public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if their religious beliefs make them unable to do so in good conscience.
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