Institute launches national committee aiming to protect religious freedom January 19, 2022By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Charging that religious practice is increasingly threatened by legal maneuvering and public actions that seek to limit the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious rights, speakers during an online launch of the National Committee for Religious Freedom Jan. 18 called on Americans to join the effort.
Supreme Court takes up former football coach’s firing for praying on field January 18, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court announced Jan. 14 that it would hear an appeal from a former high school football coach in Washington state who says his rights to freedom of speech and religion were violated when he was fired in 2015 for praying on the football field after team games.
Report IDs five European nations with increasing anti-Christian violence December 9, 2021By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Catholics are facing soaring levels of discrimination in some of the most influential countries in Europe, a new report said.
Religious freedom commission welcomes U.S. diplomatic boycott of Olympics December 7, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Olympics, Religious Freedom, Sports, World News The Biden administration’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing sends “a strong and unequivocal message” to the Chinese government that its persecution of religious minorities will not be tolerated, said the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Court rejects Catholic hospital’s appeal of transgender patient’s lawsuit November 3, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court Nov. 1 turned down an appeal from a Catholic hospital in California that was sued for refusing to perform a hysterectomy on a transgender patient.
Seal of confession a topic of debate after French abuse report October 15, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Church and government leaders in France are at odds over whether priests should be required to report the abuse of minors if they learn about it in the sacrament of confession.
Catholic Medical Association joins lawsuit over HHS ‘transgender mandate’ August 27, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News The Philadelphia-based Catholic Medical Association Aug. 26 joined in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s mandate that doctors and hospitals perform gender-transition procedures on any patient despite any moral or medical objections of the doctor or health care facility.
Faith leaders raise concerns over online censorship of religious speech August 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News YouTube’s blocking of a theologian’s talk on the Christian view of sex as a “content violation” raises serious concerns that “religious speech is being censored online,” San Francisco’s archbishop and Focus on the Family’s president said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed they co-wrote.
Federal judge sides with Catholic school over guidance counselor’s firing August 12, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News A federal judge sided with an Indianapolis archdiocesan high school and the Indianapolis Archdiocese in a lawsuit filed against them by a former guidance counselor whose contract was not renewed because of her same-sex marriage.
Ruling blocking HHS ‘transgender mandate’ called ‘victory for conscience’ August 11, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News A U.S. District Court judge’s Aug. 9 ruling to block the Biden administration’s mandate that doctors and hospitals perform gender-transition procedures despite their own moral or medical objections is “a victory for common sense, conscience and sound medicine.”
Anderson: Like worship, Christian witness is essential to religious liberty August 10, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News A top concern for Carl Anderson, the now-retired CEO of the Knights of Columbus, is preserving religious freedom in this country.
Bishops say Spain trying to ‘dismantle the Christian worldview’ July 30, 2021By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Spain’s Catholic bishops warned of growing division and tension in their country over government attempts to “deconstruct and dismantle the Christian worldview.”