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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in favor of service members objecting to the Navy’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate due to their religious beliefs. On Monday, a three-judge panel denied the Navy’s request to require about three dozen personnel to get vaccinated despite their objections on religious grounds. The SEALs, represented by […]
A Ukrainian bishop recently argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “the Antichrist of our current time,” as Russia continues to attack Ukraine. On Sunday, the BBC’s Global News Podcast featured an interview between religion and ethics producer Harry Farley and Ukrainian Bishop Yevstratiy Zoria. Zoria is a spokesperson for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. […]
A 36-year NBA referee veteran recently claimed he was fired from the basketball league last year because he refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 due to a religious objection. “I guess I never thought that my faith in our Lord Jesus Christ would prevent me, or stop me, or get in the way of me […]
A female pastor in China’s Hubei province has been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of “fraud for preaching the Gospel” after her house church refused to join the state-run church, which monitors and regulates Protestant churches. After being in police custody for two and a half years, earlier this month, Echeng District […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, February 28, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Friday (Feb. 25) killed three Christians in an attack on northeast Nigeria’s Chibok area, residents said. Besides the Christians killed in the attack on Kautikari village, Borno state, at about 5 p.m., a Church of the Brethren […]
Victims of sexual abuse at the hands of the founder of the Legion of Christ religious order are still seeking reparations from the Legion some 25 years after the scandal broke. Twenty-five years ago, a Connecticut newspaper published a story from eight men who accused the founder of the Legion of Christ religious order of […]
President Biden on Friday unveiled his choice for the soon-to-be-vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, nominating appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and labeling her “exceptionally qualified.” If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Jackson would be the first African American woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the nation’s highest […]
On Thursday, Christian leaders from diverse backgrounds urged believers to pray for Ukraine, calling Russia’s invasion of the country a dangerous situation that could have a major worldwide impact. Russia on early Thursday morning invaded Ukraine, a sovereign nation on its southern border that declared its independence in 1991, shortly after the breakup of the […]
According to a new survey by Lifeway Research, a majority of Americans believe it is very important to know for certain if they will go to Heaven when they die. Lifeway Research, which conducted the Evangelism Explosion Study of Americans’ Openness to Talking about Faith from December 8-17, found that 55 percent of Americans said […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — Southern Baptist leaders announced Tuesday (Feb. 22) that they had reached a resolution with a sexual abuse survivor whose story was mishandled when she came forward in 2019. Jennifer Lyell, a former publishing executive for Lifeway Christian Resources, told Baptist Press in 2019 that she had experienced abuse for years at […]