Religion
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Christian summer camp lawsuit prompts religious exemptions from Colorado's gender identity rules
Centennial State claims it never required religious camps to let gender-confused boys, girls use opposite-sex facilities. Maryland school district allegedly paid six figures in social media blocking case before even bigger loss at SCOTUS.
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Southern Baptists agree to push Supreme Court to ban gay marriage
The resolution was part of a broader measure that also called to defund Planned Parenthood and to keep transgender athletes out of female sports.
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Gender ideology mandate in foster care opposed by religious liberty, gay rights, pro-drag groups
"The Supreme Court has never affirmed a government-compelled speech requirement like Vermont’s that applies to a private citizen in her own home," group that sued public university for drag ban tells appeals court.
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Catholics fight government surveillance in confession after wins against abortion mandate, tax
Trump administration drops Biden guidance forcing Catholic physicians to perform emergency room abortions. Justice Sotomayor opinion for Catholic Charities quickly incorporated into motion against Washington's confession snooping.
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Catholic Bishops ask feds to block child abuse confession law
Proposed Washington state legislation makes members of the clergy mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.
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SCOTUS redux? California courts reject Christian baker punished for lesbian wedding cake refusal
California appeals court overruled factual findings at trial, claiming Cathy Miller's cakes are "predesigned" - at odds with 9th Circuit on similar issue for tattoo parlors, her lawyers claim - yet California Supreme Court denied review.
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Franklin Graham meets with Zelensky in Berlin, offers prayer for peace in Russia-Ukraine war
"The complications in Ukraine and Russia are very difficult, and I believe only God can solve this," Franklin Graham said.
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Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass draws about 200,000 people, JD Vance, Rubio, Zelensky attend
Pope Leo called for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and Myanmar.
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Pope Leo XIV confirms marriage is between a man and a woman
The pope emphasized his commitment to help foster peace, justice and truth to other civilizations, and said the mission could be achieved by investing in families.
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Christian camps sue Colorado for gender identity rules as state faces SCOTUS trifecta of losses
Colorado ironically strengthened First Amendment rights for creative professionals by targeting a Christian baker and may do it again with so-called conversion therapy ban before the high court.
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Episcopal Church ends refugee program with US government, cites Afrikaners arrival as last straw
President Donald Trump classified Afrikaners, descended from white settlers in South Africa, as refugees.
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New pope, Leo XIV, in early days a papacy, appears to be winning over church's wary traditionalists
Church insiders think Pope Leo XIV's biggest test could be on gender issue, on which he has yet to speak.
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Pope Leo XIV touches upon wars in Ukraine and Gaza in his first Sunday blessing as pontiff
“I too address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo said at St. Peter’s Basilica.