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A legal group on Thursday filed a petition requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of a kindergarten student’s poster that was censored by a school because it contained the image of Jesus. When Antonio was in kindergarten, he drew a poster with several religious figures with the words, “The only way to save the world” for an art project about the environment. Read more »

America once stood on the foundation of God’s Word. But that foundation is crumbling – even in the church – and being replaced by man’s word, observed one Christian apologist. Whatever we (America) once were, we are no longer. We have changed” Read more »

A British Airways check-in worker who refused to hide her cross necklace at work has lost her case against the airline in London’s Court of Appeals but will likely take it up to the Supreme Court. Read more »

President Obama’s faith advisory council recently voted to require churches that receive federal funds to establish separate non-profit corporations as a “necessary means of achieving church-state separation.” Read more »

Controversy over a morning prayer meeting at a high school in Georgetown, S.C., was settled this week as district officials offered a compromise. Students at Georgetown High School will be allowed to form their own prayer club as long as it is open to any student and is sponsored by a faculty member. Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Team Obama Recruiting at Public Schools; Global Warming Boss Takes Chauffeured Ride 1 Mile to Work; Atheist Group Opposes Postage Stamp Honoring Mother Teresa; Star Wars Text Makes it to Earth; Canadian Premier Flees Government Health Care to United States; The Super Bowl Kerfuffle; South Dakota Resisting Govt Health Care With Three Bills in Legislature; and more! Read more »

Religion is being removed from public life in Britain under the guise of tolerance, the Archbishop of York has warned. “This is symptomatic of a trend which has intensified in Britain over the past fifty years in the name of tolerance. That is, an attempt to remove religion from public life,” he pointed out. Read more »

A group of atheist and agnostic “freethinkers” opposed to religion has criticized the United States Postal Service for honoring Mother Teresa with a stamp that it says goes against postal regulations. Last month, in announcing the Mother Teresa commemorative stamp, the USPS praised the internationally famed Catholic nun for her 50 years of service to “the sick and destitute of India and the world,” as well as her “humility and compassion” and “respect for the innate worth and dignity of humankind.” Read more »

President Obama proclaimed Jan. 16 as Religious Freedom Day in the United States in commemoration of a statute passed by America’s forefathers that declared freedom of religion as a natural right of all humanity. Read more »

The Texas State Board of Education has delayed its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that would examine America’s Christian heritage and the role of Christianity in the foundation of our nation. Read more »

The Texas State Board of Education on Wednesday begins hearing testimonies regarding proposed revisions to the social studies curriculum. Much of the debate has centered on proposals highlighting the religious beliefs of the nation’s founding fathers. Read more »

Journalist Brit Hume who urged Tiger Woods to “turn to the Christian faith” was right when he drew distinction between Buddhism and Christianity in terms of the concept of forgiveness and redemption, said a prominent evangelical theologian. Albert Mohler, Jr. noted that while other major religions in the world believe in a god or gods, Buddhism is a non-theistic faith. Read more »

How did we reach the place of a secularist, anti-Christian culture in America? This ground has not been taken by secularism but rather given as a result of the cultural vacuum created by an impotent and apathetic Church. Read more »

Fox News Sunday panelist Brit Hume stunned many when he suggested on air that Tiger, a rumored adherent of Buddhism, should seek redemption and forgiveness through the Christian faith. Of course, no sooner had the word “Christianity” left his mouth than the media intellegensia pounced. Read more »

A Christian home-visit teacher in the United Kingdom was suspended by her company after she offered to pray for one of her sick students. Her employer told her that her offer of prayer could be seen as “bullying.” Read more »

Questions arose in my mind for the Nth time as I heard about the Leftist hysteria and teeth-gnashing over Brit Hume’s comment on Sunday that, in the wake of Tiger Woods’ moral failure and life implosion, perhaps Woods might try Christianity as a solution to get his life together. Can journalists really be this stupid, or do they just loathe authentic Christianity? Read more »

Ravi Zacharias has been doing a series on “Is There Not a Cause?” which deals with purpose and meaning. If you enjoy thinking, check it out. Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: December 25 and the Origin of Christmas; Sleaze and Slop Returns to White House Christmas Tree; Were Governor Rounds and Senator Thune politically correct?; An Insult to All Science Are We Beyond Reproach?; Senate Whores: Let the Fiddling Begin; Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa; and more! Read more »

An order to remove angels and stars from Christmas trees in all government buildings in one California county has been rescinded following the uproar that ensued over the decision. Acting County Administrator Chris Thomas in Sonoma County informed the heads of all 26 county departments to disregard his previous order, which was made in response to the complaint of a disabled atheist veteran. Read more »

All government departments in Sonoma County, Calif., removed stars, angels and other religious ornaments this week after an atheist man filed a complaint that he was offended by the Christmas tree decorations. Read more »

A New York school district is bringing Christmas back to its schools after reversing an earlier decision to ban Christmas programs from school events. In its latest move, the East Syracuse-Minoa School District decided to incorporate both Christian and Jewish songs into a holiday musical and permit teachers to welcome Santa into the classroom. Read more »