A Buddhist priest who says he’s the spiritual adviser of a federal death row inmate facing execution this month sued the Justice Department on Thursday, claiming the execution should be stayed because the Covid pandemic makes it impossible to tend to the inmate’s spiritual needs in person.
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President Donald Trump’s job approval rating among white evangelical Protestants has slipped in the last two months, according to a poll released Wednesday, but they still approve of the president by overwhelming percentages and most plan to vote for him in November.
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An Egyptian court upheld a death sentence for one Coptic monk and life in prison for another over the killing of the abbot of a desert monastery in 2018, a judicial source said.
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Vatican prosecutors have ordered the seizure of documents and computers from the administrative offices of St. Peter’s Basilica in an apparently new investigation into financial irregularities in the Holy See.
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Montana discriminated against religious schools by excluding them from a tax-credit scheme meant to help low-income families afford private education, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday.
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A federal judge struck down one of New York’s prescriptions for containing the pandemic Friday, one week to the day after Governor Andrew Cuomo ended his daily coronavirus briefings with the boast that the state had gone from “worst to first.”
Read moreThe Board of Immigration Appeals failed to account for evidence of changed country conditions when it declined to reopen an asylum request for two practicing Catholics from Indonesia who overstayed their non-immigrant visas in the U.S, the Second Circuit ruled. The two offered sufficient proof of the rise of hardline non-Muslim sentiment and persecution of Christians in the country.
Read moreUnder the terms of a settlement agreement in federal court in California, Fresno County will allow the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno to be a designated voter ballot drop-box location for at least four years. The church was removed as a polling place because it refused to cover up Black Lives Matter banners on its property.
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A Danish court acquitted three lawmakers Tuesday of defamation for writing an email in which they said public funds should not be granted to an organization helping women exposed to psychological violence because the woman behind it didn’t distance herself from Islam’s Sharia law.
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Chatitze Molla Sali already knew that she’d won the right to inherit her Muslim husband’s full estate two years ago but she had to wait until Thursday to find out just how much the Greek government would have to pay her for illegally denying it to her.
Read moreArkansas sued televangelist Jim Bakker and The Jim Bakker Show in Pulaski County Court, claiming he falsely advertised that his colloidal silver products “could cure, eliminate, kill or deactivate Covid-19.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of convicted murderer Ruben Gutierrez late Tuesday due to Texas’ ban on clergy accompanying inmates into the execution chamber.
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A panel of Seventh Circuit judges upheld Illinois’ Covid-19 stay-at-home rules Tuesday, refusing to issue an injunction against Governor J.B. Pritzker’s decision to restrict indoor religious gatherings to no more than 10 people.
Read moreHoly Fights Ministries sued Louisiana and Livingston Parish in federal court, claiming their ban on cockfighting violates religious freedom.
Read moreA federal court in Nevada denied a church’s emergency motion for a temporary restraining order and injunction to allow it to resume in-person services of more than 50 people. The church argues that casinos and other businesses are allowed to operate at 50% capacity but the court points out that casinos are subject to “much greater restrictions and oversight” than places of worship.
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Two Chicago-area churches argued before a Seventh Circuit panel Friday against Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s order to combat the spread of Covid-19, saying the state’s restrictions discriminate against religious services.
Read moreOregon Gov. Kate Brown’s ban on large church services – intended to slow the spread of Covid-19 – was within the law, Oregon’s high court ruled Friday morning.
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Stressed out while working at a bank in New Zealand, Junelle Kunin began searching for music paired with teachings from the Dalai Lama to calm herself down and help herself focus.
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Pope Francis called George Floyd by name, twice, and offered support to an American bishop who knelt in prayer during a Black Lives Matter protest.
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