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Alito's New Book Borrows a Saint's Words for Silenced Believers. That Sermon Was About a Comeback.
Justice Samuel Alito's first book, "So Ordered," went on sale Oct. 6 with a blunt warning: the Supreme Court's 2015 same-sex marriage ruling was "perhaps the decisive...
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Hegseth Said Chaplains Were "Buried Echelons Deep." A 2024 Pentagon Rule Shows Exactly How Deep.
Pete Hegseth has created a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs that answers only to him, and he says it ends an era when military chaplains were "buried...
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Supreme Court Takes Up Kentucky Priests' Marian Shrine Fight, but Drops the Golf Course Argument
The Supreme Court will decide whether a Kentucky town can stop Catholic priests from building a small shrine to the Virgin Mary next to their own church....
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Generac Called a Christian Worker's Pronoun Complaint "Frivolous." Now It Has Settled With the EEOC.
Generac, the Wisconsin generator maker, has settled with the EEOC after federal investigators found it broke the Civil Rights Act by refusing a Christian team lead's religious...
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Virginia State's Campus Ministry Policy Never Says "Christian." Its Enforcer Says It's Only for Christians.
Two Christian student groups sued Virginia State University last week over a new campus ministry policy that stripped them of club status and put a university-employed pastor...
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An Oregon District Refused to Reimburse a Mom's Christian Phonics Books. Its Approved List Includes a Book Teaching "Water Has Its Own Spirit."
An Oregon school district that hands homeschool families $2,000 per child refused to reimburse a Marine veteran mother one cent for her Christian phonics books. According to...
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The Morning Trump Hosted Xi, His White House Hailed Fulton Sheen for Fighting "the Titanic Forces of Communism"
On Thursday morning, the White House published a presidential message praising Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen for taking the Gospel to "a world threatened by the titanic forces...
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A Reagan Judge Just Cleared Oklahoma's Jewish Charter School. The State's Own Board Never Defended the Ban.
A federal judge in Oklahoma City ruled Thursday that Oklahoma cannot shut a Jewish charter school out of its charter program just because the school is religious,...
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DOJ "Sides With Churches" on the Johnson Amendment. Its Own Brief Asks Judges to Keep Most of the Ban.
The Trump Justice Department told a federal appeals court on September 21 that pastors can preach about candidates from the pulpit without losing their tax exemption. But...
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California School District Pays $175,000 After Forcing Christian Kids to Preach Gender Ideology to Kindergartners
A California school district will pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit after officials forced Christian fifth-graders to teach kindergartners gender ideology, then refused to let their parents...
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A Senator's Grudge Kept America's Religious Freedom Ambassador Post Empty for 20 Months. Trump Just Gave It to Billy Graham's Granddaughter
President Trump sent the Senate a nomination on September 14 that fills a job his own administration left open for 20 months: Ambassador at Large for International...
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DOJ Says Faith-Based Charities Can No Longer Be Forced to Hide Their Religion for Federal Grant Money
The Justice Department has told the federal government it can no longer force churches, synagogues and faith-based charities to leave their religion at the door to receive...