According to city of Gilbert, Ariz., officials, their zoning ordinance bans churches from meeting, holding Bible studies, or having any other activities in private homes, regardless of their size, nature.
In November 2009, city officials sent a cease-and-desist letter to a pastor and his wife of Oasis of Truth Church ordering them to terminate all religious meetings [...]
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed an appeal Wednesday regarding a court decision that restricts a North Carolina county from opening public meetings with prayers calling on the name of a deity.
In the case, Joyner v. Forsyth County, federal judge James A. Beaty ruled on January 28 that Forsyth County’s invocation policy is unconstitutional. [...]
The California Court of Appeal is considering the constitutionality of a shopping mall’s attempt to prevent adult patrons from talking to each other about topics such as religion and politics.
Matthew Snatchko, a youth pastor, struck up a casual conversation with two other shoppers at the Roseville Galleria Mall in 2006. Although had first obtained the [...]
Five men filed a lawsuit against the city of Richmond, Virginia after being threatened with arrest for sharing their faith on public property and at public events.
The suit, Craft v. City of Richmond, alleges that police officers with the city violated the men’s First Amendment rights by demanding that they stop their “disturbing” and “offending” religious expression, which [...]
A court dismissed criminal charges of New Jersey man who was arrested after he shared the Gospel on a sidewalk outside a public high school after the school day had ended.
In May 2009, Robert Parker began sharing the Gospel from a public sidewalk outside after Edison High School students were dismissed for the day, but [...]
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor Thursday of a public display including the Ten Commandments, on the second floor of a Leitchfield, Kentucky courthouse.
The display, entitled “Foundations of American Law and Government,” includes the Ten Commandments, Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, Star-Spangled Banner, [...]
The Ohio girl who converted from Islam to Christianity is receiving Christmas cards despite attempts by her parents to keep them away from her.
Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who ran away to Florida because she said she feared her father would kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity — only to be sent back [...]
The 3rd Circuit has ruled that a New Jersey school district can ban “celebratory religious music at school-sponsored events” without running afoul of the First Amendment.
The father of two students in the South Orange-Maplewood School District, Michael Stratechuk, sued the district over its policy against religious-themed Christmas carols being performed at a holiday concert. Stratechuk said the [...]
The teen who converted from Muslim to Christianity and made national headlines when she ran away to Flordia should talk about religion when they are reunited, according to a proposal filed in Ohio.
The proposal filed by a government case-worker in Franklin County Juvenile Court outlined a plan suggesting Rifqa Bary, 17, needs to listen to her parents’ explanation of their Islamic beliefs [...]
A federal district court issued an order Wednesday that bars the arbitrary enforcement of a state law against “unreasonable and loud noise” while a lawsuit against the law moves forward.
The ordinance was used to arrest two men who were sharing their faith and singing worship songs on a public sidewalk in the Hampton Beach area.
Alliance [...]
