If you were wondering, the war in Ukraine is having an adverse effect on the Chaldean Catholic community in northern Iraq, which itself went through spasms of violence eight years ago when an Islamic State terror campaign threatened to empty the region of its Christians.
The U.S. District Court in Philadelphia heard oral arguments Dec. 14 in a suit that aims to take away the exemption granted in October to the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious employers allowing them to refuse to cover contraceptives for their employees on moral grounds.
Little Sisters of the Poor are going back to court after Pennsylvania and California filed complaints against the federal government over the exemption.
Nearly seven years in the making, the federal government in Washington D.C., has issued rules intended to allow faith-based organizations as well as neighborhood groups to […]
