Sparing a 90-year-old cross that rises above an intersection just across the Maryland border with Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court rejected claims that the war memorial violates the establishment clause.
Read moreAtheists barred from delivering the traditional invocation before the Pennsylvania House urged the Third Circuit on Monday to uphold a block on the discriminatory policy.
Read moreThe Mexico-based La Luz del Mundo (Light of the World) church said Wednesday that its leader and “apostle” Naasón Joaquín García, who was arrested in California on charges of human trafficking and child rape, remains the spiritual leader of the group, which claims 5 million followers in 58 countries.
Read moreLed by the Alliance of Christian Leaders of the East Valley, a group of churches that assist refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants after they are released from ICE custody brought a federal civil rights complaint against the Patriot Movement AZ for conspiracy, trespass, and defamation.
Read moreThe San Antonio City Council’s vote to exclude fast-food chain Chick-fil-A from its airport sparked a lawsuit Monday from Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who seeks to force the release of documents that he says would shed light “on the religious bigotry that animated its decision.”
Read moreDrawing a bright line between religious conviction and religiously informed action, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Thursday from a Christian adoption agency that is opposed to placing children with unmarried and gay couples.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, joined the large crowd at former President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school class in rural South Georgia.
Read moreThe Kentucky Court of Appeals revived claims against a Christian drug and alcohol rehab center that requires residents to participate in Christian programming, do chores and abstain from getting pregnant.
Read moreWhen John Scopes taught the theory of evolution in a Tennessee school in 1925, he committed a misdemeanor punishable only by a fine. But yet the Scopes “monkey trial,” with Clarence Darrow as star defense attorney and celebrity prosecutor Williams Jennings Bryan, has gone down as one of the most significant trials of the 20th Century.
Read moreA federal judge denied a restraining order to a Christian school that claims California is forcing it to provide services that violate its “theologically conservative” beliefs: the state’s criminal investigation of the Teen Rescue school must be allowed to continue before the civil matter proceeds.
Read moreLighthouse Events, of Freeport, Maine, defrauded investors of $3 million by claiming to promote Christian music events, the SEC claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreAn attorney representing a Christian athletic association in Southeast Tennessee made moves this week attempting to transfer a lawsuit over a $6 million camp out of a general sessions court.
Read moreMeet Michael Grubb, a mild-mannered 59-year-old retired computer consultant, the embodiment of the Brexit voter and Democratic Unionist Party supporter. Meet the reason Brexit is such a political mess.
Read moreA World War I memorial left the Supreme Court conflicted Wednesday on where to take its establishment clause case law, even while all the justices appeared intent on not disturbing the massive stone cross that inspired the arguments.
Read moreA 72-acre camp in eastern Tennessee is at the center of a dispute between a faith-based athletic association and a Christian college over a deal made after the association’s founder was convicted of sexual battery.
Read moreWeather-worn and blackened from more than 90 years in the elements, the Bladensburg Peace Cross sits in the middle of a busy three-way interchange just across the Maryland border with Washington, D.C. as a memorial to local soldiers who died in World War I.
Read moreThe United Methodist Church teetered on the brink of breakup Monday after more than half the delegates at an international conference voted to maintain bans on same-sex weddings and ordination of gay clergy.
Read moreA federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the University of Iowa violated a Christian student organization’s rights to free speech and free exercise of religion by stripping the group’s campus privileges after it refused to elect a gay man to a leadership position.
Read moreLawyers for a Christian student group at the University of Iowa urged a federal judge Friday to find that the college unfairly stripped its status as registered student organization after the group denied a gay member a leadership position.
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