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The Marine Corps and the Navy are facing lawsuits over prohibitions on service members wearing beards or long hair required by their religion.

Religious liberty is a defining American principle. But what happens when these rights intersect with military service? A lawsuit recently filed in federal court examines that difficult question.

At Park Bar in Manhattan, beneath the massive arched mirror, Davina Thomasula and Megan Giometti met bartending. Now, years later, they are opening their own watering hole, Goodnight Kenny, in a historic building in Poughkeepsie, which in the '40s was a bar called The Ritz.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, named 45 new Area Seventies from 23 countries at its leadership session of general conference.

On Thursday, March 31, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced and sustained 45 new Area Seventies from 23 countries.

During the general conference leadership session on Thursday, 45 new Area Seventies from 23 countries were announced and presented for a sustaining vote. See the list below of these new leaders, arranged by quorum. 


The University of Iowa (UI) is facing a lawsuit for violating the First Amendment rights of a religious club on campus. After discovering that a Christian student organization was – gasp! – Christian, the school took aggressive measures to suppress the club. The UI club in question is BLinC, Business Leaders in Christ, founded in […]

A lawsuit against Gordon College will go forward in Massachusetts but four justices say the court will eventually have to clarify the “ministerial exception.”

The highest court in Massachusetts heard oral arguments on Monday regarding whether an evangelical Christian higher education institution can lawfully refuse to promote a former professor who held pro-LGBT views.

The Academy includes apartments, an event space, four new eateries and more. See what the $13 million project is bringing to Poughkeepsie.