Pakistan Set Aside August 11 for Its Minorities. Police in Gujranwala Spent It Booking a Christian Laborer for Blasphemy.
A capital charge over a video no outlet has seen, a wife nobody will locate, and a village some of its Christians have left.
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Everyone Will Call the Seven Clergy Arrested in Vermont Either Prophets or Trespassers. Read Employment Division v. Smith. It Calls Them Both, and That Is What Protects You.
Seven clergy knelt in the doorway of the building that helps ICE pick its targets and said their faith required it. The Free Exercise Clause has never excused a blockade, and that is exactly why it can protect a sermon.
I Have Wanted a Texas Textbook to Say This About My Faith for Years. On Friday One Did. Then I Read What the Same Page Says About My Neighbor.
Texas will teach its students that Christianity built the West and that Islam began in brutality. The board's own experts said the second half does not hold up. A Christian reading of the ninth commandment.
Every Sunday the Men Came to Watch the Christian Girls Walk to Church. On August 16 a Boy of Seventeen Asked Them Why.
A Christian boy in Sheikhupura asked a group of men why they came every Sunday to harass the girls walking to church. They came back with iron rods. Two groups, working separately, say what happened next.
In February I Wanted America to Do Something About Nigeria. On Tuesday a Nigerian General Explained Why the Troops Are Leaving.
About two hundred American troops are going home this month. I asked for them in February and then stopped reading. The parable is about duration.
Everyone Will Call This a Church Autonomy Win. Read the Opinion. The Tenth Circuit Never Reached the Question.
A unanimous Tenth Circuit panel ended the last tithing class action on Monday. It did it on the calendar, not the First Amendment, and the difference matters to your church.
Everyone Will Tell You the Second Circuit Just Made Religious Accommodation Harder. Read Bergin. It Moved the Question From What Your Boss Knew to What Your Boss Wanted.
The Second Circuit replaced notice with motive. That reads as a loss, and for one court officer it was. For the employee who never filed a form, it is the opposite.