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Pregnancy centers on alert following attacks and vandalism

Attacks across the country on some pregnancy care centers have left other like-minded groups on high alert while maintaining their positions on the sanctity of life.

05/10/2022 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

Leaked draft indicates Roe could be overturned

When Politico published a leaked draft opinion indicating a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, religious leaders reacted quickly to the news.

05/03/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Court rules Boston violated free speech in Christian flag case

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Boston violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment when it denied a request to fly the Christian flag on a city flagpole.

05/02/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Supreme Court considers coach’s post-game prayers

The U.S. Supreme Court weighed lengthy arguments April 25 regarding whether a high school football coach’s post-game prayer at midfield violates the First Amendment’s ban on government establishment of religion.

04/26/2022 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

House approves bill to hold accountable Myanmar military

Advocates for international religious freedom praised the U.S. House of Representatives for passing legislation to hold accountable the Myanmar military for human rights violations and to authorize humanitarian assistance to the Burmese people.

04/13/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Items from Texas synagogue hostage crisis to be displayed

Two items from the Jan. 15 hostage-taking at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville will be displayed at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

04/12/2022 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

Title 42 winds down but not quick enough for some

Christian advocates for immigrants and asylum-seekers commended the Biden administration for its plan to end a pandemic-related order that has led to rapid deportations the past two years.

04/12/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

ERLC insta a tomar medidas rápidas para proteger a los Dreamers

La entidad ética de la Convención Bautista del Sur está exhortando al Congreso a actuar con rapidez para proteger de la deportación a los inmigrantes indocumentados traídos a Estados Unidos cuando eran niños.

04/11/2022 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

Court upholds right to have a pastor in death chamber

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the religious liberty rights of a Texas Death Row inmate who wants his pastor to lay hands on him and audibly pray for him at the moment of his execution.

03/24/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Lindsey Graham grills Ketanji Brown Jackson on faith

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham grilled Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson about her faith on March 22, an uncomfortable exchange that confirmed Jackson’s status as a Protestant Christian and highlighted questions about the separation of church and state.

03/23/2022 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

Secretary of State says Burmese military guilty of genocide

The U.S. Secretary of State has determined atrocities committed by the Burmese military against the Rohingya people of Myanmar constitute “crimes against humanity and genocide.”

03/22/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Spread of antisemitic propaganda rose last year

Dissemination of white supremacist propaganda in the United States fell by 5 percent in 2021, while specific antisemitic propaganda rose by 27 percent, a new report by the Anti-Defamation League finds.

03/07/2022 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service