2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (721+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Protests in Dover and Portsmouth leave people ‘feeling far from safe’, says Bishop of Dover Discarded life jackets at Eastney Point, Portsmouth, on Monday, after a protest in response to the arrival of people thought to be migrants…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (65+ words) AB 2664 has passed the California Legislature and is now headed to the Governor’s desk. The bill would create new criminal penalties affecting speech and assembly near houses of worship. Everyone deserves to feel safe while attending religious services. Threats, harassment,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (315+ words) San Diego Jewish World Rebecca Bauer-Kahan SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – The California Legislature on Monday gave final approval to Assembly Bill 2664, the Safe Worship Zone Act, which creates a 100-foot zone around house of worship entrances where no one…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1706+ words) Co-Pastors and Foundations For Nations founders Sarah and Jason Lucas have been at the center of a controversy following a July 5 sermon that denounced the use of the Northern Arapaho Tribe's sacred pipe in prayer. RIVERTON — Sarah and Jason Lucas…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (247+ words) More than 100 tribal leaders, advocates and supporters will gather at the California State Capitol on Aug. 27 to urge passage of AB 1881, which would strengthen protections for California Indian religious and spiritual practices on state lands. More than a hundred tribal…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (437+ words) FIU students protest ICE in March 2026 / ACLU lawsuit screenshot ‘Student speech cannot be curtailed unless it materially disrupts the educational mission,’ judge rules Florida International University likely violated anti-ICE protesters’ First Amendment rights when it punished them for participating in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (640+ words) A modest blue plaque on a Cockerton house opens a window on to Darlington’s Victorian welfare history and the quiet legacy of a philanthropist whose name deserves to be better known. On the wall of a quiet Georgian property in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (683+ words) The Moral Mondays leader is taking his fight to churches and neighborhoods — and ultimately to the ballot box. After weeks of public protests, prayer vigils and arrests in Washington, D.C., activist Bishop William J. Barber II says the national moral…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) The Center Square [By Alan Wooten] – Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are blocked from entering churches of Cooperative Baptists, Quakers and Sikhs to carry out enforcement operations unless they have a warrant, or in certain specified circumstances, the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (99+ words) Thursday, August 20, 2026 74° Today's Paper Today • Updated 7:30 p.m. How Hawaii voters vote is a travesty — it is a popularity contest (“Name recognition, incumbents shape OHA races,” Star-Advertiser, Aug. 9). A key issue for the governor and the mayor is that Hawaii…...