Judge Quashes Bid to Fly ‘Christian Flag’ in Boston
A civic group failed to persuade a federal judge Wednesday that Boston must mark its proposed event by flying a flag featuring a red Latin cross.
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Rewriting History, Bosnian Serbs Question Srebrenica Genocide
The signs here are in Cyrillic, the churches are Orthodox Christian, the beer is Serbian and the residents of this Serbian side of Sarajevo say what happened in Srebrenica two decades ago was not genocide.
Read moreBoston Ban on Religious Flags Inspires Suit
A civic group that wants to fly a flag of a red Latin cross over Boston City Hall brought a federal complaint Friday to get its way.
Read moreCalifornia Pregnancy-Center Rules Unravel at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court struck down a California law on Tuesday that puts different disclosure requirements on pregnancy centers depending on the status of the licenses.
Read moreGay Couple Loses Supreme Court Battle on Wedding Cake
A Colorado baker who refused to design a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his Christian beliefs won a 7-2 reversal Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreDivorced Catholic Doctor Prevails in Challenge to Firing
A Catholic hospital in Germany failed to persuade an EU magistrate Thursday that it was justified in firing a doctor because of his divorce.
Read morePensacola Turns to 11th Circuit to Save Cross in Public Park
Pensacola, 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 moreFeds Return Artifacts Bought by Hobby Lobby to Iraq
U.S. immigration officials on Wednesday returned nearly 4,000 looted antiquities to Iraq after they were purchased by arts and craft giant Hobby Lobby in an attempt to collect biblical artifacts.
Read moreBakery Appeals to UK Supreme Court in Gay-Rights Cake Case
A bakery owned by a Christian family is asking Britain’s Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same-sex marriage.
Read moreJudge Strives to Avoid ‘Entanglement’ in Case of Dueling SC Churches
A 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 more‘Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ Says He Didn’t
A quadriplegic man who emerged from a coma in 2004 claims Christian publisher Tyndale House published a fake near-death story about him going to heaven, which was concocted by his father after they survived a severe car accident.
Read moreGreek Town Ritually Burns Judas as Orthodox Celebrate Easter
As Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Easter on Sunday, a town on Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula observed the holy day by burning an effigy of Judas at sea.
Read moreFeds Sue Wisconsin County Over Flu-Shot Policy
The U.S. Justice Department sued a Wisconsin county on behalf of a woman who claims she was forced to get a flu shot to keep her job at a county-owned nursing home, in violation of her Christian beliefs.
Read moreChristian College Wins Long Battle Over Obamacare Contraception Rule
Wheaton College, a Christian liberal arts school in Illinois, is entitled to a religious exemption from the contraception mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreEvangelist Billy Graham, Who Reached Millions, Dies at 99
The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died Wednesday. He was 99.
Read moreGay Couple Denied Wedding Cake Lose Suit
A California bakery owner can continue to refuse to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples because it violates her Christian beliefs, a judge ruled.
Read moreAnti-Gay Christian Group Prevails, for Now, at U of Iowa
A federal judge Tuesday restored for 90 days the registration of a campus Christian organization the University of Iowa had “de-registered” for violating its policies on discrimination and human rights, by barring a gay student from office.
Read moreChristians at U of Iowa Defend Rejection of Gay Student
In a case of religious freedom versus gay rights, a Christian student group argued before a federal judge Thursday morning that it should not have been booted from The University of Iowa campus for denying a gay member a leadership position.
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