RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on August 26, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in anti-Semitic protests of the kind that swept campuses last spring. The summer break has provided a chance for school officials to regroup and strategize for the fall semester. Some new rules imposed by universities include banning encampments, limiting the duration of demonstrations, allowing protests only in designated spaces and restricting campus access to those with university identification. Critics say this will violate free speech.
Iowa abortion providers are opting to dismiss their lawsuit against the state since the Iowa Supreme Court allowed a new pro-life law to be enforced. The suit’s dismissal comes weeks after the law took effect, prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. The state high court’s ruling in June reiterated that there is no constitutional right to an abortion in Iowa. The president of the region’s Planned Parenthood chapter says that prolonging the case would probably not be worth the resources required.
The families of two transgender teens in New Hampshire have filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law that bans them from playing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools. The lawsuit says the two boys, who are living as girls, have been accepted by parents, peers, teammates and coaches. Legal battles over males playing against females in school sports are cropping up more frequently. A challenge to Connecticut’s policy allowing boys to play on girls teams is making its way through the court system.
Amnesty International says most of the suspects in a rampage last year against Christians in eastern Pakistan over alleged blasphemy are still at large and authorities have failed to deliver justice to the victims. The group says that the inadequate response by authorities has generated a climate of impunity. The attack, in which churches and homes of Christians were destroyed, erupted after Muslims alleged that they saw a local Christian and his friend desecrating pages from a Koran. Blasphemy accusations are common in Pakistan.
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