Weeks after California settled with Harvest Rock Church, the state of Nevada was forced to pay out $175,000 for discriminating against Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley in its COVID restrictions. Quick Facts Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, D, passed an order during the pandemic, originally banning all indoor worship services. A second order...
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As states and cities struggle to get residents to take their COVID vaccination, governments are getting creative, offering incentives ranging from free beer to millions of dollars. Quick Facts Approximately 60 percent of U.S. adults are fully vaccinated. Nearly 25 percent of Americans do not plan to ever receive the vaccine....
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COVID restrictions across the United States reflect dictatorship and tyranny, as characterized by Mike Farris, president and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. “Local and state governments — governors in particular — really have gotten use to what amounts to dictatorial power. Because the legislatures didn’t pass the laws doing this, [governors] are enacting their...
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India is growing more hostile towards Christianity with practices such as “anti-conversion” laws, under which a doctor is now being criminally charged for encouraging her COVID patients with the phrase “Jesus heals.” Quick Facts Sandhya Tiwari, who worked with COVID patients, has been suspended and is facing criminal charges after telling...
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Päivi Räsänen, a member of Finland’s Parliament and a former Finnish minister of the interior, is facing three charges of hate speech for stating her views on homosexuality, which she explained in part by quoting from the book of Romans. Quick Facts Räsänen faces charges stemming from a 2004 pamphlet stating...
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Family Research Council (FRC) today announced the launch of its new Center for Biblical Worldview, which will offer a multi-pronged approach to help Christians fully develop and live by a biblical worldview so they can advance and defend the faith in the home, in the workplace, in the schools, in their communities, and...
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Biological males living in dorms with biological women at a Christian college seems unfathomable, but after a College of the Ozarks’ request an injunction from the Biden administration’s new transgender order was denied by a federal judge, it could soon become reality. Quick Facts College of the Ozarks, also known as...
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Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state of California have agreed to pay Harvest Rock Church $1.35 million to cover the church’s legal fees as part of a settlement that bars the state from discriminating against churches during future emergencies. Quick Facts A legal dispute began in July 2020 when Harvest Rock...
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The struggle between the Canadian government and Christian churches continues as yet another pastor was arrested in Alberta on Sunday. Quick Facts Pastor Tim Stephens of Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary, Alberta, was arrested after church services for violating public health orders. Stephens, the third Canadian pastor arrested for violating COVID...
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Tertullian once said, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church,” and a recent study conducted by Oxford University appears to confirm the ancient Christian’s wise words. Quick Facts A study published in the Oxford University journal Sociology of Religion found that in areas where the Church received...
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