RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on October 6, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – The radical Muslims who control Afghanistan are targeting women with a series of new laws. Among other things, they ban women and girls from attending school beyond the sixth grade, denying 1.5 million girls and women access to education. Afghanistan is now the only country in the world to ban girls from both secondary school and college. The Taliban is also barring women and girls from traveling, going to parks or being in public without a male relative accompanying them. Persecution of Christians in Afghanistan has intensified as well.
As President Daniel Ortega has moved aggressively to silence critics of his administration in Nicaragua, hundreds of churches have been closed, dozens of pastors have fled the country and others have been arrested. This has prompted many Christians to begin worshiping secretly at home in small groups. In some places, services have to be held at different venues every week to foil the authorities. One embattled Nicaraguan Christian says “Wherever we are, we can pray to God. Even if I’m alone, he’ll be with me.”
Three parents and a grandparent say their rights were violated when they were barred from a New Hampshire school’s grounds for wearing wristbands in protest of a boy playing in a girls’ soccer game. The lawsuit follows a September 17th match at Bow High School against Plymouth Regional High. A 15-year-old boy is playing on the Plymouth team as he and another boy challenge a New Hampshire ban in court. The plaintiffs say they were forced to take off the wristbands to prevent Bow from forfeiting the game.
California’s attorney general is suing a Catholic hospital claiming that it illegally denied an emergency abortion to a woman. Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the complaint this week against Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka. The woman was seeking an abortion after her water broke 15 weeks into her pregnancy with twins. The doctor at Providence said he could not perform an abortion so long as a heartbeat was detectable unless the mother’s life was sufficiently at risk. The lawsuit alleges violations of state civil rights laws.
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