As you might expect, some of the most thorough coverage of yesterday's 9th Circuit ruling that the Mt. Soledad cross is unconstitutional is in the local press: Greg Moran of the San Diego Union-Tribune offers this report. The LATimes coverage emphasizes that the...
Adding another chapter to a legal dispute that has been ongoing for more than 20 years, the 9th Circuit yesterday ruled unconstitutional the cross atop the Mt. Soledad Memorial in La Jolla, California. The decision could have significant church-state ramifications in...
Religious tensions continue to heighten in Egypt, after a terrorist bomb outside a Coptic Christian church on New Year's Eve killed 25 and injured nearly 100. The Coptic Pope, Shenouda I is urging the nation's Christians – who make up about 10% of the...
According to his beliefs as a follower of the Santeria faith, North Carolina's Dwayne Butler may only give his saliva for religious purposes. In 2007, he was fired for refusing his employer's demand to provide a sample for random drug screening, despite...
The Pew Center's Stateline reports on the handful of states poised to introduce (or reintroduce) school voucher programs this year. New Governors in Florida, Wisconsin, Indiana and Nevada are all pushing legislation that would send taxpayer money to private...
