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Catholic Dioceses Appeal to Supreme Court for Protection Against New York’s Abortion Coverage Mandate 05/03/2021 at 2:31 AM Posted by Kevin Edward White The petition to the Supreme Court argues that the state is making religious organizations choose between violating their core beliefs, being financially crushed, or closing down services. By Joe Bukuras, National Catholic Register, April 27, 2021 ALBANY, N.Y. — The dioceses of Albany and Ogdensburg and other Catholic and Christian min...

Washington D.C., Apr 27, 2021 / 13:00 pm America/Denver (CNA). The dioceses of Albany and Ogdensburg and other Catholic and Christian ministries last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case against New York’s abortion coverage mandate. The 2017 mandate from the state’s Department of Financial Services required that employers cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans. While the state granted a religious exemption to the rule, the groups challenging the mandate in ...

Judge gives Jewish sailor temporary pass from US Navy order to shave beard Judge gives Jewish sailor temporary pass from US Navy order to shave beard Edmund Di Liscia said that doing so would be “extremely humiliating and deeply jarring to my psyche and soul.” U.S. Navy sailors. Credit: Anthony Correia/Shutterstock. Spread the word. Electrician’s Mate (Nuclear) 3rd Class Edmund Di Liscia, a Torah-observant Jew aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, was ordered to shave his bear...

The Navy can’t force an orthodox Jewish sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt to shave his beard, at least until the end of the month, a federal judge has decided.

Judge Grants Jewish Sailor Temporary Reprieve After Navy Orders Him to Shave Beard The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) flies a replica of Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry’s “Don’t Give Up the Ship” flag June 3, 2020. (U.S. Navy/Naval Air Crewman (Helicopter) 1st Class Will Bennett) 15 Apr 2021 A federal judge on Thursday temporarily postponed orders a deployed sailor was facing to shave his beard -- an order he says infringes on his religious rights. Electricians Mate (Nuclear...

Washington D.C., Jan 14, 2018 / 05:17 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- This Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be the first without Sister Mary Antona Ebo, the only black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Ala in 1965. “I’m here because I’m a Negro, a nun, a Catholic, and because I want to bear witness,” Sister Mary Antona Ebo said to fellow demonstrators at a March 10, 1965 protest attended by King. Ebo was, in fact, the only African-American ...

The A. J. Gordon Memorial Chapel at Gordon College, a Christian academic institution located in Wenham, Massachusetts. | (Photo: Mark Spooner) 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 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments virtually over a lawsuit filed against Gordon College by former associate professor M...