Texas Churches Can’t be Forced to Close Under New Law; Catholics, Other Religious Groups Help Refugees; Nearly 60 Percent of White Evangelicals are Vaccinated; Coalition Defends Religious Nonprofit’s Right to Hire People of Shared Faith; Calif. Gov’s Attacks on Religious Liberty Lead to Five Court Losses
Texas Churches Can’t be Forced to Close Under New Law
Catholics, Other Religious Groups Help Refugees
The Catholic Church, particularly in the U.S., has been “involved in the reception and establishment” of those seeking safe haven, participating in the effort with other faith-based aid groups and organizations such as the International Rescue Committee, said Bill Canny, executive director of Migration and Refugee Services for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “These are people who have been persecuted in their countries and they need new homes, their kids need to get into schools, they need to find work,” said Canny in a Aug. 25 telephone interview with Catholic News Service, speaking about the dire situation unfolding in Afghanistan.
Nearly 60 Percent of White Evangelicals are Vaccinated
Coalition Defends Religious Nonprofit’s Right to Hire People of Shared Faith
Calif. Gov’s Attacks on Religious Liberty Lead to Five Court Losses
“Although Plaintiffs appreciate the government’s significant interest in and efforts to protect the health and safety of its citizens, a pandemic does not delegate to the Defendants unlimited power to indefinitely restrict and suppress fundamental and inalienable constitutional rights and civil liberties, including the free exercise of religion, peaceable assembly, freedom of speech and the protections afforded by the Establishment Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”