Law & Government

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INiBZiDx_5g] FORT MITCHELL, Ala. (CBS News) — A 5-year-old Alabama boy was hit and killed by traffic after he was forced to exit a car at a church parking lot near a busy highway as punishment for…

Photo Credit: Debby Hudson/Unsplash (ADF International) — Geneva’s total ban on religious services and events has been suspended by the Swiss Constitutional Chamber of the Canton of Geneva. The court has yet to decide whether the ban is a…

Photo Credit: Martjin Baudoin/Unsplash (Fox News) — The House of Representatives voted 228-164 to pass the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act on Friday, the first time either chamber of Congress has ever voted to…

Photo Credit: Aaron Burden/Unsplash (The Christian Institute) — The French government has been ordered to review its limit on the number of people allowed in places of worship by the country’s highest court. Last month, the French…

(The Christian Institute) — A multimillion pound charitable trust is being sued by its former CEO and a church over alleged anti-religious bias, in separate legal actions supported by The Christian Institute. Kenneth Ferguson, an elder at…

Photo Credit: Wokandapix/Pixabay COLUMBUS, Ohio — A proposed bill in Ohio would require schools to obtain parental permission for student participation if they plan to present sexual education that is not solely abstinence-based. Ron Hood,…

Photo Credit: Stuart Seeger LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A “hate crimes” bill has been introduced in Arkansas to create increased penalties for those who commit crimes based on a person’s race, religion, gender identity and so-called…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The governor of Oklahoma has declared Thursday a statewide “Day of Prayer and Fasting,” calling upon all people to pray for the sick during the COVID pandemic, as well as wisdom for those who are handling it. “When we…

Photo Credit: Christian Concern (The Christian Institute) — Police in the U.K. have apologised to a pastor after bursting in on his service broadcast and incorrectly telling him that he was breaking coronavirus regulations. On Nov. 20, two…

DETROIT — A Christian funeral home that fired a man who wanted to dress like a woman at work will now pay $130K to the man’s estate under a settlement now reached in light of June’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that federal nondiscrimination…