Ninth Circuit Hears Churches’ Arguments Today Seeking Emergency Injunction
SAN FRANCISCO (WordNews.org) Jan. 4, 2021 — Liberty Counsel will present oral argument before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today regarding the emergency injunction pending appeal for Harvest Rock Church and Harvest International Ministry against California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s worship restrictions. Liberty Counsel said Harvest Rock Church and Harvest International Ministry have many churches in […]
Read More →Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Religious Schools
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) July 9, 2020 — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 yesterday that faith-based schools have a First Amendment Free Exercise right to make employment decisions regarding religious teachers without government interference. The principles set forth in the consolidated cases of Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. […]
Read More →Supreme Court: Religious Employers Exemptions to Obamacare Upheld
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) July 8, 2020 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 today in favor of the Trump administration’s exemption of religious employers from the Affordable Care Act (also known as ObamaCare) requirement to provide insurance coverage for contraception and other abortion-inducing drugs and devices in their health insurance plans. The case is titled, Little […]
Read More →Fla. Governor Signs Pro-Life Parental Consent Bill
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WordNews.org) July 2, 2020 — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill this week that prohibits physicians from performing or inducing the termination of the pregnancy of a minor without parental consent. The new law became effective yesterday and makes Florida the sixth state to require both parental consent and notice before minor […]
Read More →Christian organizations praise President Trump’s Executive Order Advancing Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) June 3, 2020 — Religious liberty organizations praised President Trump for signing an Executive Order that they say will advance international religious freedom as a priority in U.S. foreign policy. “Millions of Christians around the world suffer for their faith. Now they and other people persecuted for their religion have a stronger […]
Read More →Trump winning praise from ministries for rescinding Obama’s transgender directive
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) Feb. 23, 2017 – President Donald Trump revoked former President Barack Obama’s directive that sought to a impose sweeping guidelines to all states, allowing students to use bathrooms, locker rooms and sleeping quarters on overnight trips according to their “gender identity” rather than their biological sex. The directive had Christians and others […]
Read More →Trump upholds Obama’s ‘bad’ LGBT executive order, law group says
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) Feb. 1, 2017 – President Donald Trump received mixed grades from evangelicals yesterday: Mostly an A+ for his selection of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court and an F for his decision to keep in place former President Barack Obama’s executive order “imposing the LGBTQ agenda on federal contractors,” as […]
Read More →Good News Club wins right to distribute promotional material
LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (WordNews.org) Jan. 23, 2017 – Cascade School District reversed its directive that would have prevented Child Evangelism Fellowship from distributing promotion materials about its after-school Good News Club after lawyers from Liberty Counsel contacted the school about the directive being unconstitutional. A parent had complained to the school district that the Good News […]
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