NYTIMES (Ann E. Marimow) - Supreme Court Bars Lawsuit After Prison Guards Shaved Inmate’s Dreadlocks
Damon Landor, a Rastafarian, tried to sue Louisiana prison officials for violating his religious rights.
AXIOS (Erin Alberty) - DOD removes "Christian" label from recognized religions after fury over Mormonism's exclusion
The Department of Defense has revised its new, shortened list of recognized religions after fury from Utah political leaders over not classifying Mormonism as a "Christian" faith. Why it matters: The omission is stoking ire between conservative Latter-day Saints and the rest of the religious right, as some Evangelical Christians reiterate claims that the Utah-based faith is "demonic " and a "cult ." Catch up quick: The DOD drastically reduced its list of 211 religions officially recognized for the purpose of military chaplains' services, Military.com reported last week. - Mormonism is among the 31 faiths that remain — but unlike Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutherans, Christian Scientists and others, Latter-day Saints weren't…
NYTIMES (John Ismay, Alexandra E. Petri and Aimee Ortiz) - Pentagon Cuts 180 Religious Identities From Military Personnel Records
The new policy, which the Pentagon framed as a largely administrative action, leaves just 31 religious categories to choose from, 22 of which are Christian.
THEFEDERALIST (Luke Miller) - Meet The Georgia Pastor Suing His School District For ‘Discrimination’ Against Christian After-School Program
'If we don't stand up for our freedoms at home, then when does it stop? If we just let it go, we'll never stay free.'
JUSTTHENEWS (Greg Piper) - Firefighters ask Supreme Court to stop liberal courts' end-run around religious rights
Appeals courts are circumventing high court's ruling for postal worker fired for refusing to work Sundays, letting employers deny COVID vaccine religious accommodations based on "speculative" harm with no jury trial, groups say.
JUSTTHENEWS (Steven Richards) - IRS weaponized Johnson Amendment to target conservative pastors while ignoring liberals, DOJ finds
The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias concluded that the Biden administration targeted conservative Christian churches for alleged nonprofit violations while ignoring liberal ones.
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Dozens of Congressmen Urge VA to Permit Catholic Crucifixes on Military Headstones.
Nearly 50 members of Congress are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to approve the Catholic crucifix as an emblem option for veterans' headstones in national cemeteries.
Nearly 50 members of Congress have urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to approve the Catholic crucifix as an emblem option for veterans’ headstones in U.S. national cemeteries. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Nearly 50 members of Congress are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to approve the Catholic crucifix as an emblem option for veterans’ headstones in national cemeteries. DETAIL: The initiative was started by CatholicVote, an organization dedicated to representing the interests and values of Catholic Americans. The organization consulted the Department of Veterans Affairs on whether a Catholic crucifix was acceptable, and the VA answered that it was, but official approval would be required—a process that could…Open
THEFEDERALIST (John Daniel Davidson) - Authorities In Britain Are Trying To Criminalize Christian Street Preaching
As Christianity declines in the West, we should expect Christians to be persecuted. It’s already happening in Britain.
YOUTUBE (Newsmax) - Father Flanagan on blue state requiring nuns to practice gender ideology: ‘Real legal conflict’
On Wednesday’s “Finnerty,” Father Patrick Flanagan discussed a lawsuit by New York nuns running a hospice center, who claim a state gender identity law conflicts with their Catholic beliefs.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Meg Hilling) - Israeli police block Palm Sunday rites in Jerusalem, Vatican says
Israel’s police defended the decision, saying “life-saving restrictions” were being applied to all holy sites in the Old City.