Under Oklahoma law, religious institutions and private sectarian schools are not supposed to participate in the state’s charter school programs. As we discussed last year, however, officials on Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board nevertheless approved the application by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma to establish the St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Charter School. As […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday stopped what would have been the first publicly funded religious charter school in the U.S., turning back conservatives and the state’s GOP governor who have welcomed religious groups into public education. The high court determined the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board’s 3-2 vote last year […]
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the state’s approval of the first publicly funded religious charter school in the nation violates state and federal law, and is unconstitutional. State Attorney General Gentner Drummond sued the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board on Oct. 20 after the board, by a 3-2 vote, approved the creation of St. Isidore of Seville […]
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Trinity Sunday is one of the most important holidays in the Orthodox calendar. On this special day, 66-year-old Father Nikolai was in church in the city of Derbent, Dagestan. Located in Russia’s North Caucasus region, Dagestan is a predominantly Muslim republic. But Derbent is known as “the city of three religions”. It’s one of the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities. The justices did not comment in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the contentious law. A lower […]
This year, Iowa gave $107 million in public money to religious schools. By 2026, over a third of a billion dollars will flow annually from our state treasury to religious schools. These payments violate the Iowa Constitution compulsion guarantee: “nor shall any person be compelled to … pay … taxes … for … the maintenance […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the North African country’s minister of religious affairs after 49 Tunisian pilgrims were confirmed dead in the annual Islamic Hajj in Saudi Arabia amid scorching heat. Saied has decided to terminate Ibrahim Chaibi’s tasks, Tunisia’s official news agency TAP reported on Friday, quoting a presidential statement that did not […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the country’s minister of religious affairs after 49 Tunisian pilgrims were confirmed dead in the annual Islamic Hajj in Saudi Arabia amid scorching heat. Saied has decided to terminate Ibrahim Chaibi’s tasks, Tunisia’s official news agency TAP reported on Friday, quoting a presidential statement that did not give an […]
Longtime civil rights activists and faith leaders are coming together to speak out against white Christian nationalism one day before the Republican National Convention. The “We All Belong” campaign, which was launched last year by multi-faith organization MICAH, will hold a “Rally for Democracy” on July 14 from 2 to 6 p.m. at University of […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party’s ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, a report released by Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. About 630 villages in Xinjiang […]
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