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Ethics

Supreme Court considers coach’s post-game prayers

The U.S. Supreme Court weighed lengthy arguments April 25 regarding whether a high school football coach’s post-game prayer at midfield violates the First Amendment’s ban on government establishment of religion.
International

U.S. officials, Southern Baptist leaders denounce Russian ‘war crimes’

President Biden and the U.S. House of Representatives are persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin and his military have committed war crimes in Ukraine. If those assessments prove correct, justice requires accountability for the perpetrators, a Southern Baptist ethics leader said.
International

Christian witness to China camp horrors now in U.S.

A Christian who was imprisoned for 10 months in western China is now in the United States as a witness to the notorious “re-education” camps being operated by the Communist regime of the world’s most populous country.
Ethics

Southern Baptists applaud Oklahoma abortion ban

Oklahoma’s enactment of a prohibition on abortion except to save the life of the mother received a grateful welcome from Southern Baptists at state and national levels.
Ethics

Baptist leaders grieve Colorado abortion rights law

State and national leaders among Southern Baptists responded with dismay to a new Colorado law that codifies the right to abortion and called for Christians to advocate for unborn children.
Policy

ERLC expresses concerns about Biden’s proposed budget

President Biden’s $5.8 trillion proposed budget for the next fiscal year contains elements of “deep concern,” according to the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
Ethics

ERLC applauds U.S. genocide designation in Myanmar

The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission welcomed the Biden administration’s determination that the Myanmar military has committed genocide against the Rohingya ethnic group.
National

ERLC trustees hear update from presidential search

The selection process for a new president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is progressing, trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention entity were told Thursday, Feb. 17.
Ethics

FDA makes mail-order abortion pills permanent

Abortion pills may be obtained through the mail under a permanent rule issued Thursday, Dec. 16, by the Biden administration, prompting protests from pro-life advocates not only because of the drugs’ lethal effect on unborn children but because of their risk to women.
Ethics

Eighth Circuit Court considers transgender mandate

Ethics

Supreme Court to weigh opportunity to reverse Roe

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a case that pro-life Americans hope will finally bring an end to a permissive, nationwide abortion regime that has lasted nearly a half-century.
Policy

Justices order court to reconsider ruling on abortion mandate

The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Monday (Nov. 1) its dissatisfaction with a lower court’s ruling on a state abortion mandate and ordered it to reconsider that decision in light of the justices’ unanimous opinion in support of religious freedom earlier this year.

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