US top court sympathetic toward Maryland cross in major religion case
Reuters US Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled a willingness to let a 12 metre tall cross-shaped war memorial stay on public land in Maryland despite a legal challenge that called it an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. But during a lively 70 minute oral argument in the major case about the separation of church […]
RELIGION OR REMEMBRANCE?: SUPREME COURT MULL CROSS-SHAPED WAR MEMORIAL
ADELLE M BANKS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports from the US on the fight over a cross-shaped war memorial and its wider ramifications in the US…
CHILDREN: HOW HOUSES OF WORSHIP IN US STATE OF OKLAHOMA ARE HELPING SOLVE A FOSTER CARE CRISIS
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, reports for Religion News Service…
After shuttering 700 churches, Rwanda proposes stricter clergy guidelines
RNS After closing more than 700 churches and some mosques in March, Rwandan government officials have moved to institute guidelines for how faith groups operate in the majority-Christian East African country. Rwanda’s minister in the office of the president has brought to Parliament a draft law that would require Christian and Muslim clerics to attain university education […]
US campaign to blitz the country with ‘In God We Trust’ laws takes root
RNS As the summer heat waxes and state legislative sessions wane, the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation has scored a few small but significant victories. This year, five state legislatures passed laws mandating that every public school prominently display the US motto, “In God We Trust.” The addition of Arkansas, which passed such a law in […]