The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has updated its guidance on religious exemptions for workplace vaccine mandates, saying in a new document that requests based on “sincerely held” beliefs must be accommodated, but that federal law does not protect objections based on political and personal views.
According to official Vatican reports, Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI have likely received the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in October.
On Monday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed an executive order advising state agencies to resist President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The FDA advisory panel has approved the Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.
A 16-year-old high school student is suing the San Diego Unified School District in federal court, claiming religious discrimination over vaccine mandates that require eligible students to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 by the end of December.
Some 40 U.S. Navy Seals are poised to file a lawsuit against the Pentagon over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, claiming they should be given religious exemptions.
According to a new Pew Research Center poll, most regular churchgoers in the U.S. say they would trust their pastor in providing guidance about the COVID-19 vaccine, but a majority also say their own minister has been silent on the issue.
Pastor and author John Piper is urging Christians to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and to resist “peer pressure” from political allies who may oppose the vaccine.
A prominent Washington State football coach and four of his assistants were recently fired for not complying with the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled in favor of New York healthcare workers seeking religious exemptions from the state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate by issuing a preliminary injunction barring employers from forcing their employees to get vaccinated.
