The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that Shawnee State University violated the First Amendment rights of a professor when it punished him for refusing to call a male student by feminine pronouns, Alliance Defending Freedom reported.
Shawnee State University charged Dr. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor, with...
(Headline USA) University of Iowa administrators can be held liable for monetary damages for improperly barring a Christian student group that rejects homosexual relationships, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, in a victory for religious conservatives on college campuses.
The administrators do not enjoy qualified immunity from the lawsuit brought by...
(Headline USA) A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple went on trial Monday in yet another lawsuit, this one involving a birthday cake for a transgender woman.
Autumn Scardina attempted to...
(Associated Press) The Jesuit priest who presided over an inaugural Mass for President Joe Biden is under investigation for unspecified allegations and is on leave from his position as president of Santa Clara University in Northern California, according to a statement from the college's board of trustees.
Rev. Kevin O'Brien allegedly...
The 22-year-old son of a Florida couple arrested and indefinitely detained by the FBI for participating in the Jan. 6 US Capitol uprising has gone public with a plea for help while struggling to maintain the family farm.
In a crowd-funding appeal via Give Send Go, Zack Meggs said the...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court is reviving a lawsuit brought by a Georgia college student who sued school officials after being prevented from distributing Christian literature on campus.
The high court sided 8-1 with the student, Chike Uzuegbunam, and against Georgia Gwinnett College.
Uzuegbunam has since graduated, and the public school in...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court is telling California that it can't bar indoor church services because of the coronavirus pandemic, but it can keep for now a ban on singing and chanting indoors.
The high court issued orders late Friday in two cases where churches had sued over coronavirus-related restrictions in...
(Associated Press) Scores of Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. had more than $10 billion in cash and other readily available funds when they received at least $1.5 billion from the nation’s emergency relief program for small businesses slammed by the coronavirus, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The financial resources...
More than 17,000 people have signed petition calling for evangelical pastor Franklin Graham to be fired for supporting former President Donald Trump’s alleged role in the Jan. 6 demonstration at the US Capitol.
The petition, drawn up by Christian organization Faith America, demands that Graham be dropped from the Samaritan’s...
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., defended saying “amen and awoman” after his opening prayer in Congress this week after being mocked online.
Cleaver told the Kansas City Star said he did not expect to be made fun of for the “lighthearted pun,” which was really just an an attempt to recognize...
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham fined two churches $10,000 apiece for violating the state’s coronavirus restrictions by holding in-person services on Christmas Eve.
The churches, Legacy Church and Cavalry Church, posted videos on their respective social media pages showing hundreds of parishioners gathered together singing Christmas carols during Christmas...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block an order by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear that bars in-person K-12 education until early January in areas allegedly "hard hit" by COVID-19, rejecting a plea from a private religious school.
The court said in an unsigned opinion that Beshear's order will...