The Alliance Defense Fund continues to challenge an Ohio university’s policy that silences Christians on school grounds.
In October 2002, Jim Gilles was witnessing on the campus of Miami University when he was approached by security officers, who told him that without a permit, free speech was not allowed throughout the entire university. Click here [...]

Philadelphia-based street preacher Michael Marcavage has been found guilty of disorderly conduct for proclaiming the gospel in Salem, Massachusetts.
Marcavage is president of Repent America, a ministry that calls America back to its Christian roots. On Halloween night last year, Marcavage was street preaching in Salem, a community also known as “Witch City.” Marcavage was eventually [...]

The police department in Hastings, Nebraska, has been forbidden by a federal court from interfering with Christians witnessing on public sidewalks. 
Kevin Pulver just wanted to stand on a public sidewalk adjacent to Hastings College and share his faith with anyone who was interested in listening. But according to Alliance Defense Fund senior counsel Nate Kellum, local authorities [...]

A Texas man can once again freely witness at a public transit station after being told by police that he would first have to buy a ticket if he wanted to share the gospel. Click here to read the rest!

The director of Christian activist group Repent America will be arraigned today in a Philadelphia courtroom on charges of unlawful preaching. Michael Marcavage had been preaching to people on a public sidewalk outside the Liberty Bell Center this past October when he was arrested by officers from the National Park Service. The arrest came after [...]

Beginning in 2009, the national motto “In God We Trust” will return to the front or back of the $1 coin.
According to the Thomas More Law Center in Michigan, newly minted $1 Presidential coins — under a 2005 law — had relegated the phrase “In God We Trust” to the “virtually unreadable edge of the [...]

An attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund says a small Georgia town is being targeted by a liberal group that is trying to intimidate city officials into removing a nativity scene.
Representatives of Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) are offering to defend officials in Dallas, Georgia, against a threatened lawsuit from Americans United for Separation of Church [...]

Attorneys at the Alliance Defense Fund are offering free legal assistance to officials in a small Arizona community who were threatened with a lawsuit over the town’s Christmas tree.
City leaders in Queen Creek have replaced the name “Christmas” with “holiday” on the community tree after a liberal legal group threatened a lawsuit over the use [...]

A businessman cited for displaying a gospel message on his own property is suing the town of Gouverneur, New York, accusing it of violating the U.S. Constitution’s protection of free speech and private property rights.
Daniel Burritt placed the evangelistic message on a trailer located on his commercial property adjacent to U.S. Route 11, and was [...]

A strip club owner in Ohio is pursuing legal means to stop the campaign of a local church whose members witness to patrons coming to visit his business.
“Foxhole” owner Thomas George has accused New Beginnings Ministries of harassing patrons, and even causing an explosion outside his property — while law enforcement just looks on. The [...]

A Colorado city is considering a plan that one attorney calls the epitome of the war against Christmas.
Tonight, the Fort Collins City Council will meet and decide the fate of a task force report that urges the city to decorate with white lights, winter symbols not traditionally associated with any particular holiday, and unadorned [...]

A Gideon member who was threatened with arrest while handing out Bibles near a Florida public school has been granted a preliminary injunction by a judge in a federal civil lawsuit. The motion will allow Thomas Gray to freely witness and hand out literature in a disputed 500-foot zone around the school.
Gray was handing [...]

A Georgia judge has granted a preliminary injunction against a Cumming city parade ordinance after the jailing of a man who was distributing tracts and witnessing on a street corner. Click here to read the rest from One News Now.
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The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a man who was told by government officials that he couldn’t distribute gospel tracts at the Mt. Rushmore National Monument. Read the rest here.

An evangelist in Illinois is suing the city of Naperville for being ticketed while street preaching last month, allegedly because a sign he carried was a violation of an ordinance regulating street sign location.
In September, Elmer Joe Christopherson of Burning Hearts Outreach Ministries says he and his colleagues had been witnessing for about three hours [...]

Orange County, Florida, has settled a lawsuit with a woman who claimed her First Amendment rights were violated when county employees prohibited her from distributing religious literature in a local public park. Read the rest here.

A man who says his constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested for passing out religious literature has filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Cumming, Georgia. His attorney says it’s an attempt to make sure the ordinance under which he was arrested is removed from the books.
 
This man was arrested for having [...]

Every now and then, there is some good news to report when it comes to our religious/free speech rights:
Florida Judge Dismisses Charges Against Gideons
Charges have been dropped against two individuals after they were accused of trespassing on a sidewalk outside of a Florida public school.
The two men had been handing out Bibles. (Read the [...]

A Florida resident who once successfully sued Orlando International Airport for the right to hand out religious literature at Easter time has decided she will sue again. This time Shirley Snyder is suing for the right to distribute flyers and gospel tracts to people at an Orlando public park.
Snyder has retained First Amendment public interest [...]

Last Tuesday, I posted an article concerning some of the things that are happening to our country as we rapidly decline to an anti-Christian nation. I believe that this is in large part due to our lack of evangelistic zeal and lukewarm Christianity. The most shocking part of the article was the Hindu priest who [...]

Frederic Baumann, a resident of Cumming, was arrested on April 22 for distributing tracts outside the Cumming City fairgrounds. The charges? Officials told Baumann that he did not have a parade or demonstration permit.
Attorneys for Baumann are waiting for a judge’s ruling following a hearing this week, in the unusual case and lawsuit against [...]

Charges have been dismissed against a man who was arrested last year for sharing the gospel and distributing religious literature on the campus of Schenectady County Community College in New York state. According to attorneys for minister Greg Davis, a Schenectady city court judge acquitted him of alleged criminal trespass that led to his arrest [...]

At what price have Christians kept their mouths shut?
History was made in the Senate last Thursday.
“Let us pray. We meditate on the transcendental glory of the deity supreme who is inside the heart of the Earth, inside the life of the sky, and inside the soul of the heaven.” Those were the words of a [...]

The worldwide ministry Jews for Jesus recently filed a lawsuit against the Long Island, New York, community of Oyster Bay for violating the free-speech rights of one of its evangelists.
As part of Jews for Jesus “Behold Your God” campaign last summer, Susan Mendelson attempted to distribute gospel tracts and talk to people about Jesus in [...]

A clergyman who was forced on several occasions to turn off a speaker used to amplify his preaching in public has filed a lawsuit challenging a Jacksonville, Alabama, noise ordinance — one that prohibits any amplified speech that can be heard from more than ten feet away.
On two occasions this past March, Wesley Sewell attempted [...]

A federal court has struck down the policy of a public school in New York state that didn’t allow a fourth-grader to distribute religious flyers during non-instructional time. Three years ago, Michaela Bloodgood was a fourth-grader at Nate Perry Elementary School in Liverpool, New York. She asked permission to distribute, during non-instructional time, a [...]

Two Christian groups say they were ejected from a Pennsylvania university campus for preaching the gospel to an angry group of students.
Activists with the groups Repent America and Life & Liberty Ministries say they were on the Kutztown University campus to pass out gospel literature and speak with students about what the Bible teaches [...]

After agreeing to dismiss trespassing charges against two members of the Gideons International missionary organization for handing out Bibles on a sidewalk earlier this year, the State of Florida has now charged the men under a different statute for that same incident.
The attorney feels the state’s actions border on religious persecution. “The First Amendment [...]

A lawsuit against the city of Goldsboro, North Carolina, has been settled in favor of a citizen who had previously been stopped from verbally sharing his faith in public and distributing religious literature.
Anthony Denham had been told by a police department major that his activity qualified as picketing under a city ordinance and required [...]

Two members of The Gideons International missionary organization who were arrested for handing out Bibles on a sidewalk outside of a public school are moving to have their cases dismissed in a Florida court.
In their defense, the two men are making a case that they were simply exercising their right to free speech.
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