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The ACLU has conceded defeat in their quest to remove a Ten Commandments display by letting time expire in filing a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking for review of the matter. In the case, ACLU v. Grayson County, the ACLU allowed the time to expire without filing the petition, closing the final chapter [...]
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A university professor who was fired over a complaint that he engaged in hate speech in his explanation of Catholic church doctrine on homosexuality, will now be reinstated to his position. Kenneth Howell, an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign who taught, “Introduction to Catholicism”, was dismissed earlier this month after teaching his [...]
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A North Carolina pastor was fired from his position as an honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives after he closed a prayer in the name of Jesus. “I got fired,” said Dr. Ron L. Baity, the Pastor of the Berean Baptist Church located in Winston-Salem, N.C, during an interview with Fox News Radio. [...]
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World Changers of Florida has filed a lawsuit to overturn a school district’s new ban against distributing free Bibles to interested students during off-school hours. For years, the Collier County School District allowed World Changers to place free Bibles on tables where interested students can take them at their leisure. But last year, during the celebration [...]
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Two evangelists were arrested Fourth of July weekend for sharing the gospel on a public sidewalk outside an Islamic mosque in Philadelphia. On July 3, Michael Marcavage, president of Repent America, Mike Stockwell of Cross Country Evangelism, and Ken Fleck, were singing hymns and sharing the gospel with Muslims who walked out of the “Masjid Al [...]
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A federal appeals court said Thursday that two Texas school principals may be held personally liable for confiscating Christian-themed candy cane pens and other materials from students who planned to hand them out. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in the case, Morgan, et al. v. Swanson, et al., that principals Lynn [...]
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The arrests of four Christians at the Dearborn Arab International Festival by police officers is being called by some, an enforcement of Shariah law – the radical Islamic legal system. On June 18, four Christian missionaries who never handed out any literature or engaged in unwanted conversation, were arrested for “disorderly conduct,” according to Police [...]
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A Presbyterian minister plead “Not Guilty” Monday at the District of Columbia Superior Court after being arrested on public property outside of a Planned Parenthood Clinic. For many years, the pro-life community had been allowed to pray and counsel on the public property surrounding the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Washington, D.C., but earlier this year [...]
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The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the rights of a California public law school to deny recognition to a national Christian student organization because that organization’s beliefs violate the school’s policy on nondiscrimination. In the 5-4 opinion, the Court upheld the lower court rulings in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, saying the group’s (student chapter [...]
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A federal court rejected an attempt by organizers of a Minneapolis gay-pride festival to prevent a Christian from distributing Bibles and preaching repentance. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim in the District of Minneapolis ruled in the case, Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Pride/Twin Cities v. Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, that Twin Cities Pride festival organizer’s attempt to bar [...]
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