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Oct 17 2019
News
Anti-Religion Group Says Public School Mentoring Program By Christians Unconstitutional
Officials from the Kingsport, Tennessee City Schools are reviewing the charge by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) that their mentoring program in partnership with a local church is "unconstitutional."
The FFRF, which describes its members as "free-thinkers (atheists and agnostics)", alleges in a letter to the school district that its mentoring program with
CBNJun 23 2021
Opinion
Corporate Media Don’t Understand Religion For The Same Reason They Don’t Understand America: Politics
It's no wonder the left and its defenders and scribes in corporate media don't understand Catholicism. Through the lens of American politics, how could they?
Newspaper readers and news-watchers these past few weeks have been treated to a running analysis from pundits and reporters on whether Catholic politicians should be under different rules than the other billion less-famous
The FederalistJan 02 2014
News
Religion re-enters ObamaCare debate as Sotomayor delays contraceptive mandate
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor late Tuesday halted a birth control mandate in ObamaCare for a Catholic group one day before parts of the health care law are set to go into effect.
Fox News (Online News)Jun 23 2012
News
Lawmakers claim Air Force culture becoming 'hostile towards religion'
Dozens of House lawmakers accused the U.S. Air Force this week of being "hostile towards religion," citing a string of recent incidents they claim show the military is taking separation of church and state too far.
Fox News (Online News)Mar 17 2024
News
‘One Song – 300 Voices’: Laguna Woods residents sing for peace and hope
“One song that the whole world can sing; one voice that together will bring One hope that above everything, the whole world can sing one song.” Nearly 300 Laguna Woods Village residents of diverse nationalities, religions, ethnic backgrounds, races, ages and vocal abilities gathered at the Performing Arts Center over three days last week to sing “One Song,” Mitchell J. Sharoff’s ode to peace,
Orange County RegisterJul 30 2018
Jeff Sessions forms Religious Liberty Task Force to protect freedom of religion
The Justice Department on Monday announced the formation of a Religious Liberty Task Force aimed at ensuring religious groups’ protections when their beliefs conflict with government regulations.
Washington TimesJul 30 2018
Jeff Sessions forms Religious Liberty Task Force to protect freedom of religion
The Justice Department on Monday announced the formation of a Religious Liberty Task Force aimed at ensuring religious groups’ protections when their beliefs conflict with government regulations.
Washington TimesSep 29 2020
Data
Religiously unaffiliated people more likely than those with a religion to lean left, accept homosexuality
Most people around the world identify with a religion or religious group. The rest, an estimated 16% of the global population in 2020, are religiously unaffiliated, meaning they identify as atheists, agnostics or describe their religion as “nothing in particular.”
Religiously unaffiliated people more accepting of homosexuality In many countries, being religiously unaffiliated is linked
Pew Research CenterMar 13 2024
News
Virgin of Charity unites all Cubans — Catholics, Santeria followers, exiled and back on the island
The Virgin of Charity has been crucial to Catholicism in Cuba, which repressed religious practice after becoming an atheist state following the 1959 revolution. It turned into a secular state in the early 1990s and has become more tolerant of religion over the past quarter century. But the Vatican-recognized Virgin, venerated by Catholics and followers of Afro-Cuban Santeria traditions, is
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionMar 14 2024
News
Slain Palestinian-American boy honored with resolution backed by Durbin, Duckworth, Underwood, Ramirez
WASHINGTON – Four members of Congress from Illinois introduced a resolution on Thursday to honor Wadea Al-Fayoume, the six-year-old Palestinian American boy from Plainfield slain Oct. 14 in an anti-Muslim hate crime, according to law enforcement officials. Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Rep. Lauren Underwood, and Rep. Delia Ramirez — all Illinois Democrats — are the chief sponsors of
Chicago Sun-Times