The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem has accused radical Israeli groups of threatening the presence of Christians in the holy city, in remarks that Israeli officials rejected as baseless.
In my teaching, I prepare undergraduate students to become high school history teachers. In one course, teacher candidates prepare and deliver mock lessons. Their peers play the role of high school students, and I observe and give feedback following these practice lessons. Whether coincidence or a reflection of the times, this fall a good number of mock lessons covered the rise of totalitarianism.
In what has been described as a “landmark ruling,” an employment tribunal in the United Kingdom ruled that the National Health Service (NHS) Trust unlawfully “harassed and directly discriminated against a Christian nurse for wearing a cross necklace at work.”
The court holds a 6-3 conservative majority, and the line of questioning Friday suggested the conservative justices were skeptical of the federal government's power to impose broad Covid-19 vaccine regulations.
Challengers say the admin. exceeds its authority in requiring Covid-19 vaccines or testing at large employers, and mandating vaccines for health care workers.
The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a 2018 ruling by the United Kingdom Supreme Court in favor of a Christian bakery in Northern Ireland that refused to bake and decorate a cake with a slogan affirming gay marriage.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided with Fuller Theological Seminary in a two-year battle over the school’s sexual standards policy, which states that “sexual union must be reserved for marriage … the covenant union between one man and one woman.”
