Christianity is growing in China. That’s good news.
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Because of Orange County, Flordia’s land use policy, Rabbi Joseph Konikov was prohibited from having religious meetings in his home. Konikov was later fined $50 per day for continuing his home prayer services totaling almost $56,000.
Legal action has freed the rabbi from this ridiculous violation of his religious freedom.
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The classic Christmas carol “Silent Night” was altered by the Ridgeway Elementary School in Dodgeville, Wisconsin as an expression of diversity and holiday inclusiveness in the “winter program.” A concerned student’s parent has retained legal representation to have the winter program changed.
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The secularization of the Christmas holiday rekindles outrage in Boston as the city sponsored “christmas tree” is official called the “holiday tree.” Isn’t Christmas a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of its God, founder, and namesake, Christ?
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“Despite the risks, some Christians practice their faith - sometimes with official sanction, often at great risk.”
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tags: north korea, voanews.com, voice of america, crime, faith, law, persecution, punishment, religion, christian
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Wiccan priestess, Darla Wynne, won her case to get references to Jesus Christ removed from the Great Falls city council prayers. The town is now faced with the dilemma of paying her lawyer’s bill which is 6% of the towns annual budget.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 17 - Michael J. Behe, a biochemistry professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, has spent the last eight years traveling to colleges promoting intelligent design as a challenge to the theory of evolution.
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Huichol mobs wielding machetes and clubs in western Mexico’s Jalisco state have expelled 80 evangelicals from Agua Fria village, threatening to burn the Christians and refusing to allow their return unless they recant their faith. The mobs reacted against evangelicals’ shunning of Huichol native religion, which encourages taking hallucinogenic peyote.
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Cuban police recently raided a home in the Cuban city of Colon and confiscated what officials later called “subversive and dangerous.” But the contraband wasn’t drugs, or pornography, or bomb-making instructions. What police confiscated were printed Gospels of John and a small printing press.
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Stephen Kobasa has taught English in parochial schools for 25 years, always with a deep religious conviction and without an American flag in his classroom.
It was never an issue until this school year began.
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(AgapePress) - A California high school says it will no longer prohibit a student from using religious music to accompany her dance performance audition for a January dance team concert. Officials with West High School in Torrance initially told student Lauren Stoudt she could not choreograph her dance to the song “In Your Presence” because [...]
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In a turning of tables, two defenders of evolution in academia are being sued for spending more than $500,000 of federal money on a website that encourages teachers to use religion to promote Darwin’s theory.
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The Air Force, facing a lawsuit over alleged proselytizing, has withdrawn a document that permitted chaplains to evangelize military personnel who were not affiliated with any faith, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
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(CNSNews.com) - British Christians on Sunday kicked off three days of eleventh-hour protest, hoping to defeat a government attempt to outlaw religious hatred.
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Norway’s Constitution requires that over half of the government cabinet are members of the state church - the Norwegian Helsinki Committee says this provision is a violation of human rights.
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Malaysia (MNN) — The superior court of Malaysia has dealt a blow to religious freedom in that nation.
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Hindus and Sufis and Buddhists got the OK. So did Muslims, Mormons and other Christians. Even atheist veterans have their symbol engraved free on military headstones.
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tags: dva, military, seattle post-intelligencer, seattlepi.com, veterans affairs, wiccan, death, pagan, wicca
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A Christian ministry filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court against the state of Tennessee for forcing it to obtain a license in order to continue.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — “Intelligent design” is a religious theory that was inserted in a school district’s curriculum with no concern for whether it had scientific underpinnings, a lawyer told a federal judge Monday as a landmark trial got under way.
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If you are nostalgic for the days when the Ten Commandments were posted in public buildings, you might want to consider visiting the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians.
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