Florida Bill to Protect Moral, Religious Beliefs of Doctors, Payors Signed into Law
The new law forbids employers from taking action against employees who refuse to provide services based on a conscience-based objection.
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Amid Confusion Along US-Mexico Border, El Paso Pastors Provide Migrants with Shelter & Counsel
As changing policies, rampant misinformation, and exasperated, fearful crowds converge in this desert city, faith leaders are striving to provide shelter and uplift. Along with prayers, they are counseling migrants about the daunting challenges that await them on U.S. soil, with enormous backlogs in asylum hearings and the Biden administration’s newly announced measures that many consider stricter than the existing ones known as Title 42.
On difficult Mother’s Day, daughter will seek solace at gravesite | Baptist Press
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (BP) – Sarah Smith was married and starting a family when she began to discern her relationship with her own mother was lacking something.
Man indicted on 98 charges including hate crimes for 2022 shooting at Taiwanese church in California | Baptist Press
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at a Southern California church luncheon last year has been charged with dozens of federal hate crimes in connection with the attack, which investigators said was motivated by political hatred of Taiwan.
LEGAL DIGEST: Sills refiles suit in Tennessee; California churches’ religious liberty upheld | Baptist Press
David Sills files suit in Tennessee against Jennifer Lyell, Lifeway, the SBC, others; California courts protect four churches’ religious liberty concerns in insurance cases.
Baptist leaders call on N.C. lawmakers to override impending veto of 12-week abortion ban | Baptist Press
CARY, N.C. – The heads of North Carolina’s largest Protestant group and the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention have sent a joint letter to N.C. lawmakers encouraging them to override an impending gubernatorial veto of recently passed legislation that would ban most abortions in the state after…
Texas AG Investigating Alleged 'experimental' Trans Sex-Change Procedures at Children's Hospital
A Texas children s hospital is under investigation for allegedly performing what prosecutors are calling experimental sex reassignment procedures on children
Wisconsin Woman Pleads Guilty to Stealing $30K from Congregation
A woman who stole around 30,000 from a church in Wisconsin pleaded guilty to theft and will serve four days in the House of Correction and pay a fine to the church she stole from
Spiritual Squabbles in Statehouses
This issue of A Public Witness looks at recent faith squabbles in statehouses and how this could impact Christian Nationalistic legislative efforts in a Capitol near you.
COVID-19 Health Emergency Is Ending but Faith-Based Vaccine Clinics Continue
Over the last few years, African American congregations have provided outsized action on getting people tested and vaccinated.
