2011年12月5日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Supreme Court was Right to Decline Public School Worship Case (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:40 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | As a Christian, I enjoy the right to pray to and serve the God I believe in where ever and whenever I want. I have prayed with others and will continue to -- even in public places. I believe this is a right granted to all Americans through freedom of religion, regardless of what religion they believe.

NYC ban on after-school worship services stands (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:40 PM PST

In this Dec. 1, 2011 photo, Bronx Household of Faith co-pastor Robert Hall poses for a portrait in front of  P.S. 15 in the Bronx borough of New York. The congregation behind a church-state lawsuit that may become an important Supreme Court case has just 48 official members and doesn't even have office space, never mind a church building. It now holds its services in P.S. 15 and is appealing a ruling that says doing so violates the Constitution. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The Supreme Court rejected on Monday a plea from a tiny evangelical church in the Bronx to overturn New York City's ban on religious worship services at public schools.


Lockdown at Texas high school ends (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:50 AM PST

Reuters - A high school in Austin, Texas, was put on lockdown for hours on Monday after a man being pursued by police barricaded himself in a nearby house, officials said.

Supreme Court rejects worship at public school appeal (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:22 AM PST

Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that religious groups cannot use public schools facilities for worship services outside of normal school hours in a case about church-state separation.
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