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title : Saeed Abedini: American Pastor Freed From Iran Prison Along With Three Other Americans
summary : Among four Americans released today from prison in Iran is Pastor Saeed Abedini, a formerly devout Muslim who was saved by Jesus Christ in his Tehran bedroom more than a decade ago and converted to Christianity. After establishing numerous Christian house churches, he eventually moved to the United States with his wife, Naghmeh.
date : Jan 16, 2016 02:02 PM EST
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title : National Religious Freedom Day Celebrates American Liberty Jan. 16, 2016
summary : Americans celebrate National Religious Freedom Day on Saturday, as a day set aside each year to honor the right to freely exercise deeply held religious beliefs. The day is always held on Jan. 16, which is the anniversary of the passage of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom on the same day in 1786.
date : Jan 15, 2016 06:15 PM EST
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title : Christian Owners Of New York Venue Who Refused Lesbian Wedding Lost Second Court Appeal
summary : Owners of an Albany, N.Y., wedding venue who refused to host a lesbian wedding two years ago were fined $13,000 for violating the state's anti-discrimination law, and now had their second appeal rejected by a state court on Thursday. The owners' law team indicate it's a shame "farmers can't obey their faith in their own backyard."
date : Jan 15, 2016 01:44 PM EST
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title : Christian Groups tell Supreme Court Federal Abortion-Contraception Mandate Violates Religious Beliefs
summary : Christians are forced to violate either their religious beliefs or the government's rules, due to the current U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) abortion/contraception mandate, Southern Baptist entities told U.S. Supreme Court judges through a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday.
date : Jan 13, 2016 03:36 PM EST
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title : Kim Davis: Congressman Invites Controversial Court Clerk to Obama State of Union, 'Battle for Religious Liberties'
summary : Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed last year for not issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is expected to attend President Barack Obama's final State of the Union Tuesday evening, at the invitation of an unnamed member of Congress. She gained international attention during the controversy, and on Sept. 25, 2015, said she switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
date : Jan 12, 2016 05:26 PM EST
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title : IRS Withdraws Proposal to Collect Social Security Numbers of Church, Nonprofit Donors of $250-plus
summary : Internal Revenue Service officials last year proposed a regulation by which the managers of churches, ministries and other nonprofit organizations would have to collect and report donors' Social Security numbers for contributions of $250 and up. Last week, IRS representatives announced the concept was officially being dropped, after abundant concerns about security, government overreach and IRS targeting were expressed.
date : Jan 11, 2016 04:40 PM EST
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title : Nuns Beg Supreme Court to Not Make Them 'Pick Between Faith And The Poor' via Contraceptive Mandate
summary : A group of Catholic nuns who care for the elderly poor, the Little Sisters of the Poor, urged the Supreme Court on Monday to protect them from $70 million in government fines for refusing to violate their Catholic faith. Religious sisters should not be forced to choose between caring for the poor and obeying their conscience, the nuns stated in a legal brief, adding that this choice is what the government is demanding of them through the federal contraception mandate.
date : Jan 06, 2016 02:37 PM EST
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title : ACLU Challenges Glenview Elementary School For Honoring 9/11 First Responders With 'God Bless America'
summary : It was a tradition that began at the school shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America. Glenview Elementary School students have been gathering on the playground at the New Jersey school and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance followed by the words, "God bless America" at the end as a way to honor all of the first responders. Over a decade later, the ACLU is saying that publically asking God to bless America is a violation of separation of church and state.
date : Jan 06, 2016 01:03 PM EST
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title : Georgia Lawmakers to Champion ‘Religious Liberty’ Anti-LGBT Bills, Providing Protection For People Of All Faiths
summary : When conservative lawmakers in Indiana and Arkansas last year promoted "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" (RFRA) legislation designed to legalize anti-LGBT discrimination, a similar bill was considered in Georgia. Now that proposed measure is set to return among these Southerners legislators, along with another pro-discrimination bill.
date : Jan 05, 2016 06:05 PM EST
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title : Supreme Court Scalia: 'Don't Cram' Government Religious Neutrality 'Down Throats of Americans'
summary : U.S. government having to be neutral about religion is not supported by the Constitution and is not rooted in American history, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday at a speech at a Catholic high school in Louisiana.
date : Jan 04, 2016 12:57 PM EST
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title : Ted Cruz Believes Jesus Christ Can Still Fix America's Broken Political System, Skewed Values
summary : Ted Cruz is apparently not in agreement with those who would say that, "God isn't fixing this." The slam was originally aimed at those who were offering prayers in conjunction to San Bernardino and their families. But it is interesting that the Christian rock band, The Newsboys, just happens to have a song called, "God's Not Dead," that Cruz is meeting with several Evangelical leaders over the next two days who will apparently be supporting his campaign, and that the Newsboys will be playing as part of a rally at the meeting's conclusion. The meeting is expected to host about 300 Christian leaders and financial backers.
date : Dec 28, 2015 05:32 PM EST
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title : Mexican-Catholic Persecution of Evangelical Christians 'Happening in Almost Complete Obscurity'
summary : When most people think of Mexico, they don't think of persecuted Christians. About 83 percent of the Mexican population is Catholic. So other faiths are definitely in the minority. However, Evangelical Christianity is apparently growing, which may explain in part why some Mexican states have become hostile to them.
date : Dec 28, 2015 02:04 PM EST
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title : Six Organizations Join Legal Battle To Remove Ten Commandments' Monument In Pennsylvania High School
summary : Six organizations this month joined the multiyear legal battle to remove a Ten Commandments' monument from Valley Junior-Senior High School in New Kensington, Penn. A lawsuit originally was waged from an atheist parent who refused to send her daughter to school due to the monument's presence on the school grounds. The monument was donated to the school district by the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the 1950s, part of a nationwide movement in response to the 1956 release of the movie, “The Ten Commandments.” The lawsuit now will carry into 2016.
date : Dec 28, 2015 12:01 PM EST
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title : Christian Institute's Colin Heart: Britain's 'Extremism Disruption Orders' Law Could Negatively Impact Christians
summary : When Lakeisha Holloway plowed her car through crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas, Nevada sidewalk, one of the first questions asked by reporters included wanting to know if it was an act of terrorism. While the Sheriff over the investigation has said that he doesn't presently see that as a motive, the Paris and the San Bernardino, California attacks have left people in a great deal of fear about Muslim extremists, ISIS and terror groups.
date : Dec 22, 2015 04:06 PM EST
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title : Public Prayer Ban Against Christian Students Overturned By Wyoming School District Via First Amendment Rights
summary : School district officials reversed a Wyoming high school principal's decision to block students from praying in the school cafeteria during lunchtime after a Christian advocacy firm threatened to take legal action if the students were forbidden from exercising their religious liberties. The matter started this fall, and the students have prayed at school at least once since the Equal Access Act decision was announced Thursday.
date : Dec 22, 2015 11:48 AM EST
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title : Christian Leaders in Albania Repent of Persecuting Other Christians
summary : In what is being touted as one of the biggest displays of Christian humility and unity, Christian leaders who met in Albania are repenting of persecuting one another. Albania is across the Adriatic Sea from Italy, and Greece is to its south. About 41 percent of the people are Christians, with the Muslim religion not very far behind at about 38 percent.
date : Dec 21, 2015 03:55 PM EST
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title : Kentucky School Parents Picket to Reinstate Gospel Reading in 'Charlie Brown Christmas' Play
summary : After Kentucky public school officials announced they were cutting the iconic Nativity story from the school's stage play of “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” parents set up a picket line outside school district offices this week. School representatives said they took the measure to avoid a potential lawsuit. Others are crying, "Good grief!"
date : Dec 18, 2015 12:54 PM EST
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title : 78 Y/O Christian Pastor Battling Cancer May Face Six Years in Jail After Calling Islam 'Heathen' and 'Satanic'
summary : James McConnell, the Christian pastor who faces up to six months in jail if convicted over a sermon delivered last year in which he branded Islam as "heathen" and "Satanic", will stand trial this week
date : Dec 15, 2015 12:29 PM EST
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title : #MyTreedom Campaign Combats Christian Persecution With Christmas Tree Photos
summary : A newly-launched Facebook campaign called My Treedom celebrates freedom from religious persecution and the right to observe Christmas around the world by posting daily photographs of Christmas trees and holiday decorations from some of the hardest places to live and practice as a Christian.
date : Dec 15, 2015 11:26 AM EST
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title : Liberty Institute Attorney Justin Butterfield: 'Criminal Summons' Against US Church Worship on Rise
summary : Incidences of town residents who live near churches complaining that church worship music is too loud is on the rise. The most recent case of a complaining neighbor and a lawsuit that is getting some press is in Louisiana. Vintage Church's executive pastor was actually issued a "criminal summons" in front of his entire congregation and pregnant wife because the worship team was too loud for one town resident on Sundays.
date : Dec 14, 2015 07:43 PM EST
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title : Complaint About Nativity Scene on New Mexico City Property Prompts Bigger Christmas Festival
summary : When an atheist group mailed Belen, N.M., city leaders a complaint about a nativity scene placed on property across from City Hall, Belen officials initiated a new "Follow the Star to Bethlehem" event, which became the city's biggest Christmas occasion ever. Belen, a city founded in 1740, is Spanish for Bethlehem. It reportedly was named by two Spaniards deliberately in honor of Bethlehem, making this complaint a bit more personal than usual.
date : Dec 13, 2015 01:25 PM EST
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title : 'Tebow Prayers' At Air Force Football Games Called 'Scandalous,' Shouldn't Be Allowed, Says Former Military Minister
summary : Former U.S. Air Force captain and chaplain MeLinda Morton believes public praying done by Air Force Academy football teams on the field's end zone during home games does not honor the Separation of Church and State doctrine, as created by the U. S. Supreme Court. Additionally, Mikey Winstein, president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said Air Force players participating in public prayer "is a scandalous outrage."
date : Dec 12, 2015 12:39 PM EST
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title : Georgia Harris County Sheriff Mike Jolley: Tolerate Community's Political Incorrectness Or Leave
summary : It's interesting how intolerance tends to be one-sided when the topics are God, Christmas, respecting America's service men and women and the American flag. The Georgia Harris County Sheriff Mike Jolley is apparently fed up with what is often one-sided tolerance and political correctness on these topics. So he posted a sign on his county border that reads:
date : Nov 30, 2015 02:15 PM EST
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title : Virginia's VA Christmas Trees Banned For Christian Symbolism, Nativity Scenes Not Mentioned
summary : Recently, there was a big uproar about a Christmas tree ban in a Virginia VA building. The ban noted that Christmas trees "promote the Christian religion," and so they weren't going to be allowed on what was apparently considered government property. The way that this battle has apparently come to a temporary close is that other symbols of the season must also be displayed so that the holiday is more all-inclusive. Never mind that it is called Christmas. In addition, the VA employees can still be punished if they are caught saying, "Merry Christmas" to anyone in a public area in the Virginia VA building -- including veterans.
date : Nov 24, 2015 05:18 PM EST
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title : Suspended Bremerton High School Coach Joe Kennedy to Continue Praying For His Team
summary : Despite his suspension from his position as assistant high school football coach at Bremerton High School in Washington State for his refusal to stop praying following a protest by Satanists and atheist, Joe Kennedy said he would continue praying for his team to ask God to bless the future of his players and thank Him for a good game.
date : Nov 04, 2015 11:58 AM EST
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