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Close In this May 3, 2020, file photo, the setting sun shines on the Supreme Court building in Washington. As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide, the Supreme Court late Wednesday, Nov. 25, temporarily barred New York from enforcing certain attendance limits at houses of worship in areas designated as hard hit by the virus. The court’s action won’t have any immediate impact since the two groups that sued as a result of the restrictions, the Catholic church and Orthodox Jewish synagogues, are no longer subject to them.  Patrick Semansky By TOM STRODE Baptist P...

Many questions about the future of refugee resettlement in the U.S. and just how agencies like World Relief will need to respond cannot be answered until Biden announces his plans, Soerens said. After the Trump administration made deep cuts to the federal program, World Relief closed offices and laid off staff. It is unclear if and where World Relief would need to expand, but the agency looks for places with a network of churches eager to support refugees and welcoming communities with job opportunities and affordable housing.  "If there's a large segment of the population that is, I thin...

Members of a Syrian refugee family walk with their luggage at Beirut international airport ahead of their travel to the United States from Lebanon, February 8, 2017. | Reuters/Mohamed Azakir Former President Donald Trump's cuts to the refugee ceiling will continue to impact resettlement for years as President Joe Biden’s commitment to resettle 125,000 refugees per fiscal year will only be as good as the infrastructure that has been decimated in recent years, advocates said Wednesday.  Representatives from faith-based groups and a national security expert discussed issues facing refugee res...

December 17, 2020 On Dec. 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s pandemic restrictions that treated churches more harshly than other spaces, like casinos and restaurants. This is a significant win, as the ERLC argued for in our amicus brief in this case. The case challenging Nevada’s non-neutral pandemic rules was brought by Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, a church in rural Lyon County. Calvary Chapel is represented by the legal organization, and ERLC partner, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) that made the case that Gov. Sisolak’s rules...