Christian News NW, Subscribe A jury saw no validity to three of a former faculty member’s four legal claims against a Christian university here, but affirmed a fourth claim and as a result awarded him $127,000 on May 3. As reported by The Oregonian, Johnny Lake, a former professor at […]

By Randy Alcorn Oregon based author Eternal Perspectives Ministry For years, when my daughters were young and I was a pastor, I lived under the tyranny of the telephone. I treated the ringing of the phone as a divine mandate, and I missed too many dinners and bedtime prayers with […]

BY Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Catholic league president Bill Donohue comments on a new law in Texas: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has struck a blow for religious freedom, signing into law the “Save Chick-fil-A” bill. That this law was even necessary demonstrates the level of contempt among […]

By M. Martin, Oregon made national headlines this week for a new bill allowing students to take a mental health day off from school. It was picked up by NBC News, the Today show, CNN, NPR and USA Today.  Before this bill, students were only allowed to take a sick […]

Brad Dacus Founder and President, Pacific Justice Institute One of the most heart-wrenching cases we’ve taken on in the last few years involves the forced removal of a toddler from life support. We’ve just had an important new development in that case, and I wanted to make sure you had […]

Liberty Counsel Press Release, Liberty Counsel has asked a federal district court to forgo a trial and order the city of Boston to allow its resident Hal Shurtleff and his Christian civic organization, Camp Constitution, to fly the Christian flag on a city flagpole that Boston has opened to hundreds […]

By Pacific Justice Institute, California Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties) withdrew SB 360, a bill that would have required clergy to report certain confessions to the government. The Bill would have further restricted ministers by excluding clergy penitential communications from long established legal protections including “spiritual […]

Wall Street Journal Editorial, Fresh off upholding the Bladensburg Cross, the Supreme Court has taken another case with even more at stake for religious liberty. On Friday the Justices agreed to hear a challenge that involves Montana’s Blaine Amendment, a constitutional provision that bars tax-credit scholarships from going to religious […]

Catholic League for Religious and civil rights Catholic League president Bill Donohue wrote the following letter to Assemblyman Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer. He is chairman of the committee that is in charge of the bill. The bill would penalize priests who fail to disclose the sexual abuse of a minor told […]

By Alliance for Defending Freedom, The U.S. Supreme Court will once again hold Barronelle Stutzman’s fate in its hands. In February 2017, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that the government can force this 74-year-old floral artist and grandmother to create floral art celebrating events that conflict with her faith. […]