There is a battle raging in America over public displays of religion and our religious heritage. We have been covering these skirmishes for some time now on this blog. Crosses on public lands have become the most obvious targets particularly war memorials with religious quotes and themes. Then at Christmas time the battle heats up [...]

                       (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is another one of those situations lately where Christians involved with street ministry -preaching or handing out tracts have been subjected to threats or arrests by the police in America. The incident happened in Buffalo, New York during the Italian Festival last year. The police threatened to arrest a Christian [...]

(Image Credit: WPRO) From the Chippewa Herald: An estimated 1,500 people _ many of them veterans _ turned out Wednesday in the Rhode Island city of Woonsocket to defend a war memorial topped with a cross whose constitutionality is being challenged by an atheist group. Speaking before a crowd of people bearing crosses of their [...]

         The Mojave Memorial Cross  (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From ABC News: A federal judge approved the lawsuit settlement on Monday, permitting the park service to turn over a remote hilltop area known as Sunrise Rock to a Veteran of Foreign Wars post in Barstow and the Veterans Home of California-Barstow. The park will give up [...]

Be not silent, O God of my praise! For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.  They encircle me with words of hate,and attack me without cause.  In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.   So they reward me evil for good,and [...]

                                           (Image via Wikipedia) From Citizen Link: Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska issued a preliminary injunction today in favor of the Bronx Household of Faith church and “similarly situated parties”* allowing them to use New York City public schools on weekends for worship services pending the outcome of the latest constitutional challenge raised by [...]

         (I Pledge Allegiance -Photo: Richard Elzey) Atheist parents of three children in the Acton Public Schools and the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District are suing to have the ‘under God’ clause removed from the Pledge of Allegiance that is recited in the Massachusetts schools every day according to state law. The name of the family [...]