WATERLOO, Iowa—Flanked by Christmas trees topped with red ballcaps bearing his “Make America Great Again” slogan, former President Donald Trump stepped into the Christmas spirit, but he sidestepped the just-released Colorado Supreme Court decision to yank his name from the 2024 ballot on constitutional grounds. Within a couple hours of that Dec. 19 decision, President […]
BILLINGS, Mont.—A Montana woman who police say was intoxicated when she drove her vehicle repeatedly through a group of religious demonstrators, wounding one person, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple felony charges. Genevienne Marlene Rancuret, 55, was arraigned in state district court and ordered held on $250,000 bond in the alleged weekend assault in […]
In June, a school board in Oklahoma approved the first religious charter school in the U.S. to receive public funding, which triggered a subsequent lawsuit to block its establishment. NTD discussed the case with Phil Sechler, Senior Councilor of Alliance Defending Freedom, the entity representing the school board.
Senate Democrats—aided by 12 Republicans—took a giant step on Nov. 28 toward the final passage of the “Respect for Marriage Act” that many civil liberties experts say will seriously damage Americans’ freedom of religious practice and expression. The 61 to 35 vote came on a cloture motion to limit debate on the Senate floor to […]
Faith Wins, an organization that encourages Christians to vote their Biblical values, says large numbers of religious Americans are now stepping out. Chad Connelly, the head of the organization, says Christians who shied away from politics in the past are now taking action to help push the country in a more traditional direction. NTD sat […]
The Supreme Court ruled Monday on a dispute involving flying a religious flag outside Boston City Hall. The result proves to be a defeat for the city government and a victory for a Christian group. NTD spoke to the group’s leader who fought to fly the flag.
U.S. State Department officials met six representatives of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong on April 25 for an update on the decades-long ongoing persecution in China. The day marks the 23rd anniversary of a peaceful appeal dated back to 1999, when an estimated 10,000 adherents of Falun Gong, a meditation practice that was first introduced […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has begun deliberating a case involving a former high school assistant football coach from Washington state which will impact how religious liberty is defined in public schools and beyond. Jay Richards, senior research fellow in Religious Liberty and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation, thinks that former coach Joseph Kennedy’s case […]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case involving a religious employer’s decision to not hire a bisexual man. This means that a Washington state court will now decide whether the employer violated the law.
The United Airlines COVID-19 vaccine mandate has violated some employees’ religious beliefs, according to a federal appeals court. The company’s mandate allows for religious exemption applications but even if those applications are granted, some employees to which they are granted are forced to stop working, receive no pay, and stop getting benefits paid by the […]
What qualifies as protected free speech is still debated on school grounds and in court. A new case has emerged in Michigan, where a high school allegedly suspended a student for sharing his religious beliefs and prohibited him from making religious comments on his own social media profile.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and all other military officials are barred from taking punitive action against two service members seeking religious exemptions to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a federal judge ruled Feb. 2. The Marine Corps. lieutenant colonel and Navy Command officer appear to have been “wrongfully denied a religious exemption from COVID-19 […]
You probably haven’t heard of the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia. It’s a small federal agency that assists courts in D.C. But this week, the agency’s gained the attention of legal experts after announcing a new policy: It’s creating a database to record the personal religious information of all agency employees who […]
The Marine Corps is the first U.S. military branch to grant religious exemptions to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, nearly two months after the vaccination deadline for active-duty Marines. The Marines approved two requests for religious accommodation from the mandate, the branch said in a statement on Thursday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the mandate […]
The Air Force has denied 2,130 requests for religious exemptions to the Department of Defense’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which is compelling a large portion of the U.S. military to receive a vaccine, the service said. In a press release published on Wednesday, the Air Force said it has so far received a total of 10,000 […]
No U.S. military branch has granted a request for religious accommodations from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, military officials said in court filings Friday. Over 16,000 U.S. service members have submitted applications for a religious exemption from the vaccination requirements, according to court documents. The Air Force has seen the most, by far, with 11,070. The […]
