Superior Court Associated Judge Neal A. Kravitz also barred the extremist group and its leaders from coming near the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church or making threats or defamatory remarks against the church or its pastor for five years. (AP/NPR)
Read MoreIn siding with an evangelical Christian mail carrier who quit the U.S. Postal Service after he was forced to deliver packages on Sundays, his Sabbath, the Supreme Court on Thursday (June 29) did something rare: It brought a whole panoply of U.S. religions together. (Shimron, Religion News Service)
Read MoreAfter revelations by The Telegraph that a teenage boy had been arrested over allegations of serious sexual assaults in mixed-sex lavatories, the author and campaigner said that such attacks were “entirely foreseeable and preventable”. “Girls’ safety, privacy and dignity is being sacrificed to an incoherent ideology pushed by lobby groups, which gives predatory males easy access to victims,” Ms Rowling said.(Dixon, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThe Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of a Pennsylvania postal worker who lost his job for refusing to take Sunday delivery shifts due to his Christian observance of the Sabbath. The court’s opinion, written by justice Samuel Alito, held that accommodating Gerald Groff’s religious practice did not provide an “undue burden” on postal operations, which expanded to Sundays for Amazon delivery. (Silliman, Christianity Today)
Read MoreThe “internet apocalypse,” as it’s called, has recently captured imaginations on social media, prompting quick-spreading misinformation about nonexistent NASA warnings and speculation about what the hyper-online might do with themselves in an offline world. Apocalypse preppers, religious doomsday Redditors and writers have all, at some point, seized on the idea. (Ables, The Washington Post)
Read MoreA teenage boy has been arrested over four allegations of “serious sexual assault” at the Essex school. The Telegraph understands three of the alleged attacks took place in lavatories used by boys and girls. (Dixon & Clarence-Smith, The Telegraph)
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