Supreme Court permits taxpayer challenge to funding of Baptist home
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower-court ruling allowing Kentucky taxpayers to sue over public funding of a Baptist youth home.
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Supreme Court sides with Texas in case involving prisoner-s rights
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The United States Supreme Court ruled April 20 that a federal law protecting the religious liberty of prison inmates does not entitle a prisoner to monetary damages if that right is denied.
Court accepts Wiley Drake’s ‘birther’ appeal
PASADENA, Calif. (ABP) -- Nearly two-and-a-half years into his term, a federal appeals court has agreed to hear oral arguments in a case alleging that Barack Obama is not eligible to serve as president of the United States.
Pastor facing possible deportation prepares for court, will seek pardon
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (ABP) -- A Hispanic Baptist pastor arrested last summer by immigration authorities won't find out until September whether he will be deported for a crime committed in 1995.
Supreme Court sides with Westboro Baptist Church
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The United States Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on March 2 that anti-gay protests outside of military funerals by a controversial Kansas Baptist church clan are protected speech under the First Amendment.
India’s Supreme Court changes ruling after protest by Christians
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) -- India's Supreme Court amended a ruling upholding a life-in-prison sentence for two men convicted of murdering a Baptist missionary and his two young sons 12 years ago by removing language that critics said appeared to condone vigilante violence intended to
Wiley Drake appealing ‘birther’ case to state Supreme Court
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (ABP) -- A California attorney asked the state's Supreme Court Dec. 3 to hear arguments that the Secretary of State should have been required to verify that Barack Obama was eligible to serve as president of the United States before putting his name
Calif. court strikes down Wiley Drake’s ‘birther’ case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (ABP) -- A state appellate court in California has dismissed a lawsuit filed by plaintiffs including a former Southern Baptist Convention officer claiming that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and therefore is not eligible to occupy the
Federal court returns MBC case to Camden County
A federal court has refused to hear the ongoing Baptist struggle over 1,300 acres at Lake of the Ozarks, returning one case to the state district court at Camden County.
Supreme Court ruling on gun ownership could affect churches
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling June 28 that possessing a handgun is a constitutional right is expected to unleash a wave of new lawsuits, including challenges to state laws that forbid carrying of concealed weapons in church.