An event center manager sued a Catholic church in Portland, Oregon, for $2.4 million this week, claiming that after suffering reputational harm because it abided by the church’s anti-gay policy, the Holy Rosary Church terminated its contract because it hired a gay manager.
Read moreCatholic Social Services has sued Philadelphia in federal court, claiming the City Council unconstitutionally stopped placing children in its foster homes because of the church’s opposition to gay marriage, “prioritiz(ing) political grandstanding over the needs of children.”
Read moreA doctor who says he is bound by the teachings of Jesus Christ to provide care for the sick, claims in court the U.S. Forest Service violated his right to religious freedom by refusing him access to a woman who has been sitting in a tree protesting the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Read morePensacola, Florida on Wednesday asked the 11th Circuit to reverse a lower court order requiring the city to remove a 34-foot-tall Latin cross from a public park.
Read moreA Native American tribe brought a federal complaint Monday that accuses a New Jersey town and homeowner’s association of levying illegal fines and trying to intimidate them into stopping open-air prayers on ceremonial grounds.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday that a congregation of Orthodox Jews can build a synagogue in Boca Raton, Florida, seemingly putting an end to a decade-long legal battle.
Read moreCiting reports by six Muslim women, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission claims in a federal complaint that Aviation Port Services stopped letting its female passenger service agents wear long skirts.
Read moreA Berlin court has ruled that a law prohibiting a Muslim teacher from wearing a headscarf in a public school doesn’t violate her constitutional right to religious freedom.
Read moreThe New Mexico Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over whether the state’s program that lends textbooks to private and religious schools violates the doctrine of separation between church and state.
Read moreWhen a Southern California woman was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence last year she was told she could not wear her headscarf in the Ventura County Jail even though she’s Muslim, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court Monday.
Read moreKansas lawmakers stayed up late Thursday into early Friday morning to pass a law that protects adoption agencies that refuse to serve LGBT couples because of religious beliefs.
Read moreThe embattled chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives has won his job back just hours after sending a scalding letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan that accused a top Ryan staff aide of telling him “something like ‘maybe it’s time that we had a Chaplain that wasn’t a Catholic.'”
Read moreA Native American feather dancer asked the U.S. government Thursday to end its restrictions on tribes using eagle feathers in religious ceremonies.
Read moreAustralian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, will face two trials on sex crime allegations spanning decades, a court heard on Wednesday.
Read moreThe Third Circuit allowed an order of nuns to intervene on Tuesday in a lawsuit pitting Pennsylvania against the Trump administration’s rollback of the contraception mandate under the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday granted motions to expand a trademark infringement and false advertising lawsuit the pits the Episcopal Church against a breakaway group known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina.
Read morePeople in Warsaw pinned paper daffodils to their clothes as the Polish capital held a day of commemorations Thursday on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Read moreAfter a dozen New Jersey churches received millions in taxpayer dollars to carry out repairs, the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday that such grants cannot happen again.
Read moreChurch employers who advertise jobs that are not specifically religious in nature cannot demand that applicants are members of the faith, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday.
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