Posts Tagged ‘court’
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2 arrested 14 years after missionary Graham Staines’ murder
Fourteen years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons were burnt to death in sleep by a right wing mob, two suspects were arrested Friday from Odisha’s Keonjhar district.
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Church closures, demolition spark protest in Indonesia
Demolished Batak Protestant Christian Church (HKBP) building in Bekasi, outside Jakarta. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hundreds of Christians hit the streets of Indonesia’s capital this week to urge government action after lo...
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Pakistani court overturns Younis Masih’s ‘blasphemy’ conviction, Death Sentence
A court in Pakistan today overturned the death sentence of a Christian convicted under Pakistan’s “blasphemy” laws and ordered him released, according to an advocacy group.
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40 years after Roe v. Wade, abortion foes are winning — and losing
Four decades after Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, many opponents of the decision are in a celebratory mood while those backing abortion rights are glum, feeling that momentum is turning ...
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Court says Catholic businessman can fight contraception mandate
A federal appeals court on Wednesday (Nov. 28) temporarily blocked the enforcement of the Obama administration's contraception mandate while a Catholic business owner appeals a lower court's ruling that tossed out his suit.
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Uzbekistan increases charges against church leader in Kazakhstan jail
The legal ground continues to shift underneath Makset Djabbarbergenov, a house-church leader being held in a Kazakhstan jail at the request of his native Uzbekistan.
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Mass. Supreme Court to hear case against ‘under God’ in Pledge of Allegiance
Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a non-religious family that's challenging the mandatory daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in their children’s classrooms.
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Monks win latest court battle in bid to sell caskets
In a sometimes harshly worded ruling, a federal appeals court on Tuesday (Oct. 23) smacked down the Louisiana funeral board's continued attempts to prevent a group of monks from St. Joseph Abbey from selling their hand-crafted ...
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Perpetrators of Turkey’s ‘Malatya massacre’ put on trial
Nineteen suspects accused of inciting the brutal 2007 murders of three Christians in eastern Turkey went on trial before Malatya’s Third Criminal Court in early September.
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Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani to Face New Charges in Iran
A 35-year-old Christian pastor, who has spent nearly three years behind bars in Iran and has been sentenced to death for refusing to renounce his faith, has been ordered to appear in court next month, where he is expected to fa...