Attorneys representing the children of a father who sexually abused them and reported that abuse to church leaders are asking the Arizona Supreme Court to reconsider its unanimous ruling last month siding with religious leaders who argued the state’s clergy-penitent privilege law shielded them from reporting that abuse to authorities. The justices also declared that […]
(The Center Square) – Protesters outside churches, synagogues and other religious places will have to keep a certain distance from places of worship if the California Legislature passes a new bill.
A mix of allies and sometimes colliding ideas and goals shared the stage at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington this week. Key Trump administration officials pledged to defund international organizations and entities that are no longer effective while arguing for keeping the United Nations charter, before former Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a touching message about religious pluralism from the Dalai Lama.
Family members and friends of Jimmy Lai, a businessman and a pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, are holding out hope that he can still be released after his guilty verdict on national security and sedition charges, if President Trump and other world leaders put pressure on Xi Jinping to free him.
The Trump administration has placed more than 50 career civil servants and foreign service officers on administrative leave after receiving information that they may have been conspiring to circumvent Trump’s executive orders requiring the halting of federal aid funds to overseas programs and all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the agency.
House Republicans who have led a nearly two-year investigation into a $500,000 State Department grant to an organization that promotes humanism and secularism are pressing the agency to conduct more diligent oversight after it admitted that the organization may have misused taxpayer funds.
