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Religious Expression
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Evangelical Church Sues Castle Hills, TX for Denying SUP for Sunday School Space
By Evan Seeman
Wayside Chapel Evangelical Free Church is suing Castle Hills, Texas for denying its application for a special use permit for property located at 113 Ivywood Circle. The Church claims that…
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Missouri AG Supports High School Football Coaches’ Prayer Practices
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt this week released a letter (full text) which he sent on Dec. 3 to the superintendent of the Cameron, Missouri School District supporting high school…
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Recent Articles of Interest
From SSRN:Ihsan Yilmaz, Religio-Secular Counter-Hegemonic Legal Knowledge Production and Its Glocal Dissemination, (January 12, 2019).Shaun Alberto de Freitas, A Critique of Ronald Dworkin’s Limitation of Passive Forms of Religious Expression…
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In Canada, Parent’s Suit Challenges Classroom Demonstration of Smudging Ceremony
CTV News and Nanaimo News reported yesterday on the opening of a trial in Nanaimo, British Columbia in a suit against a school district because of a classroom demonstration of a…
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Santa Muerte, Don’t Pray for Us – Crisis Magazine
When godlessness reigns, it s not surprising to see false gods rise in response to the human hunger for spiritual fulfillment. It is surprising, however, to see people turn to…
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Citizen Lacks Standing To Challenge City’s Annual Menorah Lighting
In Taylor v. City of Flagstaff, (D AZ, Oct. 9, 2019), an Arizona federal district court held that a citizen of Flagstaff, Arizona lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of the…
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Pope seeks ‘courageous’ debate over Amazon priest shortage
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis urged South American bishops on Monday to speak courageously at a high-profile meeting on the Amazon, where the shortage of priests is so acute that…
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Evangelizing Students Sue Over Restrictive Park Rules
A lawsuit was filed yesterday in an Illinois federal district court by Wheaton College students who are members of the Chicago Evangelism Team. The suit challenges limitations on the areas…
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Suit Challenges Virginia Fair Housing Act Provision Barring Religious Language In Ads
Suit was filed in a Virginia state trial court yesterday challenging a provision in the state's Fair Housing Code which provides that advertisements using "words or symbols associated with a…
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Court Expands Injunction On Prayer At High School Graduations
In American Humanist Association v. Greenville County School District, (D SC, July 18, 2019), a South Carolina federal district court expanded its May 2015 order relating to prayer at high school graduation…