#religious-freedom

#religious-freedom

Massachusetts will no longer require prospective foster parents to affirm the sexual orientation and gender identity of the children they foster, following legal challenges and criticism from religious groups. The change comes after the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit in September on behalf of two Massachusetts families, who claimed the requirement conflicted with their religious beliefs, according to a Fox News report.

"They share one thing in common," he wrote. "Plaintiffs do not wish their children to be pressured, to observe venerate, or adopt the religious doctrine contained in the Ten Commandments."

On a frigid winter's day in 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York's Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school. It wasn't a snow day, but a protest: Activists and the Yiddish press had called for a boycott of the Christmas assemblies and pageants that they knew Jewish children would be obliged to attend on the day before the holiday.

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would not review a case that could have led it to revisit its 2015 decision Obergefell v. Hodges, which made gay marriage a constitutionally protected right. The appeal was brought by the former county clerk Kim Davis, who was held in contempt of court after she refused to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples.

announcing that his administration had designated Nigeria a "Country of Particular Concern" due to the alleged "mass slaughter" of Christians at the hands of "radical Islamists" in the West African nation. "Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God," Minaj wrote in her post. "Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously."

Under the terms of the agreement, the defendants will pay $225,000 in attorney's fees stemming from the litigation first filed by Carpenter in 2021.

"The airline employee took my passport, looked at my passport, looked at me, and said that my passport doesn't match my face, so I have to remove my [hijab]."

In Quebec, Bill 21 has drawn sharp opposition from a broad coalition—including the National Council of Canadian Muslims—who argue it tramples basic rights.

The Bundestag's Green Party group has submitted a motion to abolish Berlin's Neutrality Act, stirring a broader European conversation around secularism and religious expression.