A United Kingdom pastor has won the right to preach again on the city streets, three years after local police warned him not to criticize other religions or deliver sermons without their approval.
A United Kingdom pastor has won the right to preach again on the city streets, three years after local police warned him not to criticize other religions or deliver sermons without their approval.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative law firm representing CEA, celebrated the decision as a victory for religious liberty.
It’s our job to be Jesus to our lost friends. To encourage those who know God but continue to struggle with sin. We need to remain faithful to the standards God gives us for living in the Bible. We must also ask God to help show us how to love well. When sin exists, wisdom is necessary in each and every situation.
“They don’t want anything Christian, don’t want any mention of God. And that’s what is wrong with our nation today,” said customer Betty Barger.
This year’s Open Doors Watch List found that over 360 million Christians are being severely persecuted and discriminated against for their faith. The reports also found 4,998 Christians around the world were killed for their faith.
Open Doors, a religious liberty watchdog, reported that many Armenian Christians fear ethnic cleansing.
A suicide bombing left more than 50 people dead and injured close to 70 others in Pakistan during the birthday celebration of the prophet Muhammad on Friday.
A prominent atheist group is claiming that the Auburn University football coach’s attendance at a school revival event was “unconstitutional.”
The United Kingdom's West Midland Police have dropped charges against a woman arrested in March for silently praying within an abortion facility's "buffer zone."
Years ago in a Breakpoint commentary, Chuck Colson described the jury selection process in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, the doctor accused of helping at least 27 of his patients kill themselves. Kevorkian’s lawyer attempted to bar anyone who said their Christian faith forbids suicide from serving on the jury, claiming that belief made them unfairly biased.
Religion has been increasingly relegated to the private sphere. Christians are welcome to participate in public life only if they leave their faith at home … [but] [t]he logic of Kevorkian’s defense attorney could be applied to any criminal trial. If potential jurors can be excluded for believing that assisted suicide is immoral, what will be the next step? Will the attorneys of accused murderers be permitted to exclude jurors whose religion teaches that life is sacred?
More than 25 years later, that dismal hypothetical seems less hypothetical.