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.
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 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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Weeks after invoking the Virginia governor’s blackface controversy to roast state mask requirements, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. has apologized to appease mounting criticism that led some of the school’s black staff members to resign.
Read moreThe ACLU and Black Lives Matter sued President Trump and Attorney General William Barr on Thursday for using violent force to clear peaceful protesters so the president could pose for a photo holding a bible outside the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church.
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A court in Russian-annexed Crimea on Thursday sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for organizing an extremist organization, in the latest harsh sentence against the Christian movement.
Read moreThe Texas Supreme Court awarded more than 60 church properties valued at over $100 million Friday to the breakaway conservative Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth that left the national church due to it allowing female and gay bishops and same-sex marriages.
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Norma McCorvey loved the limelight. Better known as Jane Roe, her story was at the center of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. At first she was an abortion rights advocate, but in a twist, she became a born-again Christian in 1995 and switched sides.
Read moreA federal court in California refused to grant a temporary restraining order to the Cross Culture Christian Center in a dispute challenging the state’s stay-at-home orders, finding the orders do not violate the Constitution and are a valid use of emergency powers “especially given the extraordinary public health emergency facing the state.”
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Dialing in from the hospital, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made no secret of her disapproval of the government Wednesday for standing in the way of women’s access to free birth control.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit ruled Saturday to allow a Kentucky church to hold drive-in services, but declined to completely halt Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s temporary mass gathering ban.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit on Saturday declined to block the Kentucky governor’s temporary ban on massing gatherings from applying to in-person religious services.
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A Denver judge denied a Christian baker’s motion to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit filed against him after he refused to make a birthday cake commemorating a gender transition.
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Attorney General William Barr on Monday ordered federal prosecutors across the U.S. to identify coronavirus-related restrictions from state and local governments “that could be violating the constitutional rights and civil liberties of individual citizens.”
Read moreA Kentucky church lost its bid for a temporary restraining order to block enforcement of Governor Andy Beshear’s executive orders prohibiting mass gatherings in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Maryville Baptist Church, which held in-person services on Easter in defiance of the restrictions, failed to prove it would suffer “permanent and irreparable injury” absent a restraining order, a federal court in the state ruled.
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The Justice Department took the rare step on Tuesday of weighing in on the side of a Mississippi Christian church where local officials had tried to stop Holy Week services broadcast to congregants sitting in their cars in the parking lot.
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