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Southern Baptists Advance Amendment Formalizing Ban on Women Pastors

SBC messengers voted 3 to 1 to strengthen the denomination's constitutional ban on women serving as pastors, elders, or preaching to the congregation.

Source: Christian Post · June 2026
📖 Verse of the Day

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.· Joshua 1:9

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Liberty Desk

Appeals Court Upholds Limits on Immigration Arrests at Houses of Worship

The Fourth Circuit upheld an injunction blocking immigration arrests near churches and other houses of worship while a lawsuit over a 2025 policy change continues.

Source: Christianity Today · August 2026
Liberty Desk

Supreme Court Sides Unanimously With Catholic Charity in Tax Exemption Case

The Court ruled 9 to 0 that Wisconsin violated the First Amendment by denying a tax exemption to Catholic Charities because it serves people of all faiths.

Source: The Hill · 2026
Liberty Desk

DOJ Updates Religious Liberty Guidance for Federal Agencies

The Justice Department issued updated religious liberty guidance incorporating recent Supreme Court rulings, following an earlier task force report on anti-Christian bias.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice · July 2026
Liberty Desk

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Catholic Preschool Excluded From State Program

The Court agreed to hear a case over a Catholic preschool's exclusion from Colorado's universal preschool program, on the heels of a deadlocked religious charter school case.

Source: SCOTUSblog · April 2026
Liberty Desk

Appeals Court Rules on Religious Schools and State Tuition Programs

The First Circuit partially upheld Maine's antidiscrimination rules as applied to a Catholic school in the state's tuition assistance program.

Source: Mondaq · August 2026
Liberty Desk

Virginia Student Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Rule Barring Aid for Religious Majors

A Liberty University student is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a 2004 ruling that lets states deny college aid to students pursuing religious degrees.

Source: First Liberty Institute · August 2026
Liberty Desk

Texas Judge Wins $640,000 After Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Weddings

A Travis County court ruled the state's judicial conduct commission cannot discipline a justice of the peace for declining to officiate same-sex weddings on religious grounds.

Source: Christian Post · June 2026
Liberty Desk

Federal Judge Rejects Deal to Let Churches Endorse Political Candidates

A Texas judge dismissed a proposed settlement that would have let churches endorse political candidates from the pulpit without losing their tax-exempt status.

Source: The Texas Tribune · March 2026
Church Desk

Reformed Church in America Formally Condemns Christian Nationalism

Delegates at the RCA's General Synod adopted a statement declaring Christian Nationalism opposed to the gospel, joining a wider pattern of denominations taking an official position.

Source: Reformed Church in America · June 2026
Church Desk

PCA Rejects Female Deacons Proposal, Advances Christian Nationalism Report

The Presbyterian Church in America voted down a proposal to allow women deacons and moved a partial report on Christian Nationalism forward for further study.

Source: Christian Post · June 2026
Church Desk

PC(USA) Assembly Opens Door to LGBTQIA+ Pastor Openness, Advances Sexuality Study

Commissioners voted to let congregations signal openness to LGBTQIA+ pastors and advanced a denomination-wide study on sexuality and family.

Source: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) · June 2026
Church Desk

More Than 45 EPC Churches Move to Leave Over Sexuality Vote

Dozens of Evangelical Presbyterian Church congregations are seeking dismissal after the denomination reaffirmed its position on same-sex attraction and ordination.

Source: MinistryWatch · June 2026
Church Desk

LDS Church to Open 55 New Missions Worldwide

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will create 55 new missions, bringing its total to 506, to keep pace with a growing number of missionaries.

Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Newsroom · July 2026
Church Desk

Global Methodist Church Holds First General Conference on African Soil

The four-year-old denomination is meeting in Johannesburg this week to elect eight bishops, its first General Conference held on the African continent.

Source: Global Methodist Church · August 2026
Church Desk

Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Adopts Resolution on Modern-Day Martyrdom

Delegates at the LCMS national convention approved a resolution urging congregations to teach on Christian martyrdom in light of recent attacks on believers.

Source: The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod · July 2026
Family Desk

Bethany Christian Will Require Foster Families to Share Its Faith Statement

The country's largest Protestant foster and adoption agency will only license foster families whose beliefs align with its Statement of Faith, reversing a 2021 policy.

Source: Christianity Today · June 2026
Family Desk

What Parents Should Know About the School Opt-Out Ruling Still Shaping Classrooms

A June 2025 Supreme Court ruling requiring schools to let parents opt kids out of religiously objectionable material is still being implemented in districts nationwide.

Source: Congressional Research Service · June 2025
Family Desk

California Parents Ask Supreme Court to Hear Homeschool Religious Materials Case

Families are challenging a California policy that strips funding from homeschoolers the moment their chosen curriculum turns out to be religious.

Source: Christian Post · August 2026
Family Desk

Catholic Families Sue Georgia Over Rule Requiring Public School Before Scholarship Aid

Three families argue a state scholarship rule forces them to set aside their religious convictions for a year before they can get help paying for Catholic school.

Source: WTVM · August 2026
Family Desk

Federal Agency Tells States Parents Can't Lose Custody Over Religious Beliefs on Gender

New federal guidance says states cannot remove children from their homes solely because parents decline to affirm a child's gender identity for religious reasons.

Source: Administration for Children and Families · March 2026
World Desk

China Releases Zion Church Pastor After Nine Months in Detention

Pastor Ezra Jin was released and reunited with family in the U.S. after a nationwide crackdown on his unregistered Chinese church, though several colleagues remain detained.

Source: Al Jazeera · July 2026
World Desk

Iran Moves to Seize Tehran's Oldest Protestant Church, Evict Families

Iranian authorities have moved to confiscate a nearly 150-year-old Tehran church and evict the low-income Christian families living on its property.

Source: Christian Post · July 2026
World Desk

Sudanese Pastors and Family Members Kidnapped, Later Released

Two Sudanese church leaders and several family members were kidnapped by armed groups and released within days, amid a wider surge in attacks on Christians in the region.

Source: Christian Post · August 2026
World Desk

At Least 24 Christians Killed in Overnight Attack on Nigerian Village

Gunmen attacked a farming community in Nigeria's Plateau State, killing at least 24 people, most of them women and children, in the latest of several attacks in the region this month.

Source: International Christian Concern · August 2026
World Desk

American Missionary Freed After Nine Months Held Captive in Niger

Kevin Rideout, a missionary pilot who had lived in Niger for nearly two decades, was released after being kidnapped near his home last October.

Source: Christianity Today · August 2026
World Desk

Egypt's Top Court Sets November Hearing for Coptic Researcher's Blasphemy Appeal

Dr. Augustinos Samaan, sentenced to five years of hard labor for videos comparing Christianity and Islam, will get an appeal hearing after a trial his lawyers say they were shut out of.

Source: Coptic Solidarity · August 2026

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