(Laos, & S. Prov. via Wikipedia) Laos: Eight Christian leaders in Boukham village of Savannakhet Province were arrested on Friday (Dec. 18) following a Christmas celebration attended by some 200 church members. According to the report, the leaders had received permission for the event and the village chief had even attended part of it. [...]

            (Image via Wikipedia) According to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, offering prayers in ‘Jesus name’ during legislative invocations are unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State took the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners in North Carolina to court over opening prayers given before commission meetings [...]

                               (Burlington, VT  via Wikipedia) According to a Task Force report to Burlington, Vermont School Board, white middle-class Judeo-Christian values and culture must be eliminated. A new educational strategy proposed to the school district is openly hostile to Christianity and biblical values claiming that Judeo-Christian culture “perpetuates inequality.” The report repeatedly cites  "white, middle-class, Judeo-Christian [...]

                              (Image via Wikipedia) Here’s another case where a Christian student group is in trouble over expecting groups leadership to adhere to a core set of beliefs. The InterVarsity Christian group at The State University of New York-Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) is in the process of being investigated for dropping a leader who wanted to pursue [...]

             (Image via Wikipedia) The U.S. government shut down the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on November 18 due to lack of funding. The USCIRF was the government agency that monitored religious freedom in countries around the world. According to reports, the allocation of funding for the commission could not get out of [...]

We posted about this case last year: -University Tells Student to Abandon Christian Faith or Else It was all about a Georgia graduate counseling student,  Jennifer Keeton, at Augusta State University who was told by administrators to change her Christian attitudes particularly in regard to homosexuality or face expulsion from the university’s graduate counseling program. [...]

                                         (Image via Wikipedia) From Citizen Link: The dispute began in October, when the federally funded University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) informed the nurses they either had to participate in abortions or risk losing their jobs. The Alliance Defense Fund intervened on their behalf, and a court blocked the hospital from [...]