Ruling protects Christian ministries
The Supreme Court has affirmed and clarified the “ministerial exception” rule to include lay people, stating that employees don’t have to be ordained to be considered religiously significant. The Court ruled 7-2 Wednesday that two ...
Saving Conjoined Twins, Kanye for President, Today’s MinistryWatch Podcast, MinistryWatch & ECFA Database Changes
Saving Conjoined Twins, Kanye for President, Today’s MinistryWatch Podcast, MinistryWatch & ECFA Database Changes
The Little Sisters of the Poor claimed victory at the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday after the Court upheld 7-2 the Trump administration’s contraceptive exemption.
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The U.S. Supreme Court gave religious liberty advocates a victory yesterday. The decision came in the case of Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Montana’s no aid clause, also known ...
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The Supreme Court today struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.
With Election Day four-plus months away, religion angles — no surprise! — abound.
Giving to charities dropped 6 percent in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same time last year, including an 11-percent dive in March as the country headed into the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) shutdowns.
A look ahead to the next round of religious liberty cases
Christian ministries were put into a kind of no-man’s-land as a result of last week’s Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ rights. In a 6-3 ruling on June 15, the Supreme Court said that the word “sex” in the ...
