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The Word “Abortion” Hides the Real Question: Fetal Personhood and the Euthanasia the Law Won’t Name (AI Illustration) The most consequential legal question in American constitutional law is not the… The post Wyoming’s Abortion Fight Keeps Circling the Question Nobody Has Answered appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

What did Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists say about separation of church and state? Thomas Jefferson’s Jan. 1, 1802, letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut contains the… The post Separation of Church and State: What Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists Actually Said appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

The Luther Foundation Finland faces a corporate fine and a mandate to redact a 22-year-old theological pamphlet. The post Finnish Supreme Court Imposes Criminal Liability on Religious Publisher appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

A federal appeals court ruled that the state does not violate the Constitution by requiring private school students to travel to public sites for disability services. TLDR A federal appeals… The post First Circuit Rejects Parental Challenge to Massachusetts Special Education Rules appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

TLDR (Too Long / Didn’t Read Summary) Canada’s Supreme Court began hearing arguments Monday in English Montreal School Board, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec, et al. (No. 41231),… The post Can a Province Override Religious Freedom? Canada's Supreme Court Is About to Answer appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

AI Illustration By Michael Peabody Three Stanford University researchers published a proposal in MIT Technology Review in March 2025 that deserves more scrutiny than the science press has given it.… The post Ethically Sourced Humans: Silicon Valley's Most Disturbing Bet appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Dear Reader, You already know this publication. You’ve been reading it, sharing it, and relying on it to make sense of one of the most contested areas of American law.… The post Why ReligiousLiberty.TV Is Unlike Anything Else in This Space — And Why It Matters Right Now appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Can a Teacher Secretly Facilitate a Student’s Religious Conversion? A federal judge just cleared an Illinois history teacher who provided a Bible to a Muslim student and connected her with… The post Illinois Teacher Cleared in Religious Conversion Suit appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

The Supreme Court of Finland has issued a final verdict in the long-running “Bible Trial,” convicting Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola of “agitation against a population… The post Finnish Supreme Court Imposes Criminal Liability on Religious Publisher appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

On March 26, 2026, Larry Kirkpatrick, executive secretary of the Northern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, sent a letter to the conference’s elders, volunteer lay pastors, and pastors announcing… The post No Creed But the Bible: How One Adventist Conference Got It Right on Speaker Guidelines appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

On March 26, 2026, Larry Kirkpatrick, executive secretary of the Northern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, sent a letter to the conference’s elders, volunteer lay pastors, and pastors with… The post Pros and Cons of NNEC Letter appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Federal court rejects parental claims over daughter’s shift from Islam to Christianity The post Illinois Teacher Cleared in Religious Conversion Suit appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Dear Reader, The post Why ReligiousLiberty.TV Is Unlike Anything Else in This Space — And Why It Matters Right Now appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

A startup wants to manufacture brainless human bodies for organs, drug testing, and whatever comes next. Someone should ask what comes next. The post Ethically Sourced Humans: Silicon Valley’s Most Disturbing Bet appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Quebec’s Bill 21 targets religion by name, bans its visible expression categorically, and rewrites Quebec’s own Charter to make secularism a state value. The post Can a Province Override Religious Freedom? Canada’s Supreme Court Is About to Answer appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

A federal appeals court ruled that the state does not violate the Constitution by requiring private school students to travel to public sites for disability services. The post First Circuit Rejects Parental Challenge to Massachusetts Special Education Rules appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Speaker Johnson's reading of Jefferson's wall captures half the history. Here is the other half. The post Separation of Church and State: What Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists Actually Said appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Well here is a post I made on this issue... How Easter was used to replace the Sabbath We see how the name "Easter" never appears in the Greek New Testament. Easter is not a Christian name. It is Chaldean (Babylonian) in origin, a variation on the name Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven. It is to be noted that the apostolic church never gave attention to either the date of Christ's birth or the date of His resurrection, other than to note that the latter occurred on a Sunday. Neither of these days was observed by early Christians but as the pagan influence came into the church so did its festivals. In the third and fourth centuries a tremendous debate arose among Christian churches as to when Easter was to be observed. For the Roman Catholic branch it was largely settled at the Council of Nicaea (AD 325) with a formula still followed to this day, which cannot possibly be commemoration of the actual resurrection. In current practice Easter always falls on a Sunday and the Sunday chosen wanders over a period of four weeks ranging from March 22-April 25. Here is a good explanation.. “Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.” ~ Tom Harpur “The Pagan Christ”. The point is that the early Christians gave no attention to commemorating the resurrection day of Christ. If they had been serious they would be observing the 17th day of the Jewish month, Nisan, which begins with the first new moon following the spring solstice. Passover among the Jews begins with the 14th day of Nisan. It would not be possible to commemorate the actual day of the month and have it always on Sunday, so the choice was made to have it on Sunday, adjusting the day of the month for convenience. Given this information, although the resurrection of Jesus is a historical event of huge importance, we have no biblical precedent for making Easter a special day of celebration. Now the fact that Sabbath was supplanted by the church at Rome and even the anti-Judaism stirred up by Jewish revolts is well known and documented, and the claim that came out that it was from the 'resurrection', but scripture does not give any change nor was there any 'tradition' from the apostles. The truth is it was used to supplant the Sabbath, and the first day, Sunday has no basis for worship except for pagans as their festival day to the sun. Nothing of Easter was about Christ or His being risen, it was sun worship, 'the sunrise service tradition', is bowing and praying to the rising sun as you can see today. Here is even more on this: "The author of the "Epistle of Barnabas" adduces the occurrence of the Resurrection on the first day as the reason for the observance of this "true day" (xv.). In the meantime the attitude of the Roman authorities had become intermittently hostile to the Jews; and after the rebellion under Hadrian it became a matter of vital importance for such as were not Jews to avoid exposing themselves to suspicion (Huidekoper, "Judaism at Rome"). The observance of the Sabbath was one of the most noticeable indications of Judaism. Hence, while in the first Christian century more or less regard and tolerance for the Jewish day were shown in Rome, even by non-Jewish Christians, in the second century the contrary became the rule (Justin Martyr, "Dial. cum Tryph." ii., § 28). In the East, however, less opposition was shown to Jewish institutions. Saturday and Sunday both were celebrated by "abstaining from fasting and by standing while praying" (Rheinwald, "Archäologie," § 62), In the West, especially where Roman influence dominated, Saturday was turned into a fast-day (Huidekoper, ib. pp. 343-344). The name "Sunday" is used for the first time by Justin Martyr ("Apologies," i. 67) in accommodation to a Roman nomenclature, but with reference to the circumstances that the light was created on the first day (noticed also in the Midrash; Gen. R. iii.: "ten crowns adorned the first day") and that the "light of the world" rose from the night of the grave on the first day of the week. The Christians, accordingly, were obliged to defend themselves against the charge of worshiping the sun (Tertullian, "Apologeticus," xvi.). The celebration of two days (by the Judæo-Christians?) is attested by Eusebius ("Hist. Eccl." iii. 37) and by the "Apostolic Constitutions," which advise the keeping of Saturday as a memorial of the Creation, and of Sunday, the Lord's day, in memory of the Resurrection (ii. 59). Originally, then, Sunday and Sabbath were kept sharply distinct. But, like the Jewish Sabbath, Sunday was deemed not merely a holiday, but a holy day, and hence fasting thereon was interdicted (Tertullian, "De Corona Militis," § 3). Ease of mind (ευφροσύνη, which corresponds to "naḥat ruaḥ"; "Epistle of Barnabas," l.c.) was the proper condition for the day. One should not kneel at prayer (Irenæus, "Fragm. de Paschate"; "Apostolic Constitutions," l.c.); the standing posture, being at first a protest against mourning and ascetic rites (such as were forbidden on the Jewish Sabbath), came to be explained as suggestive of the Resurrection.".... SABBATH AND SUNDAY - JewishEncyclopedia.com Some try to say it was changed by the disciples or their actions or the resurrection, but Sunday has nothing even after the resurrection as the disciples continued with the Sabbath as it was before and Christ tells it it would continue so you have to really bend scripture to fit Sunday as the day of worship. It isnt there.......

A Christian Cosmology of Heaven, Earth, Conflict, and the Architecture of Genesis The post Before the Beginning appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

The full piece covers the theological architecture behind Iran’s strategic behavior, what the Iran-Iraq War reveals about how the regime processes defeat, and three assessments of what comes next: how… The post What the West Gets Wrong About Iran appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Photo: Adventist Review – April 26, 2017 HAVANA — The print shop at the Cuba Adventist Theological Seminary outside Havana has, at various points in recent history, run out of… The post FAITH UNDER THE FLAG: Adventism in Modern Cuba appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California | (Photo: Harvest Ministries) Four million dollars. That’s what it allegedly cost Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California to keep a departing pastor quiet… The post The Harvest No One Preached About appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

The case has renewed calls for stricter vetting of faith-based volunteers COLUMBUS, Ohio – A man who spent months volunteering as a religion teacher and youth minister at a Seventh-day… The post Volunteer With Expired Visa Taught Children at Ohio Adventist School While Amassing Nation’s Largest Child Pornography Cache appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

What happened. Peter Thiel, 58, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, held a four-day, closed-door lecture series in Rome this week arguing that the biblical Antichrist may emerge not as an… The post THIEL TAKES HIS ANTICHRIST ROADSHOW TO ROME appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

LEAD STORY FAITH UNDER THE FLAG: Adventism in Modern Cuba. Cuba has 35,000 Seventh-day Adventists and one of the denomination’s most active church-planting programs in the Western Hemisphere, all operating… The post Stories from the last week appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Screenshot of The Atlantic webiste featuring the story that gave rise to our analysis. A Dutch doctor injected a 16-year-old girl with a lethal drug. It was legal. He went… The post They're Killing Teenagers Now appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

America has two kinds of execution. One is called a death sentence. The other is called compassion. Both use the same drug. Pentobarbital. It flows into the veins of death… The post Death's Little Secret: The Same Drug Kills Killers and 'Dignity' Patients appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Nearly everyone arguing about Genesis has misread it. The physical universe existed before Day One, formless and dark, already present when the Spirit hovered over the waters. The angelic order… The post Before the Beginning appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

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In Sweden, a Christian couple is going through a nightmare that captures the growing bias and targeting of religious families in Europe. Daniel and Bianca Samson have been fighting to regain custody of their daughters since 2022 after the government cited their regular church attendance and faith as warranting their removal. The parents, with the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom International, were delivered another blow after the European Court of Human Rights refused to accept their appeal as “inadmissible.” This saga began when their eldest daughter had a fight with her parents over being denied a smartphone and makeup. She contacted police and made a false report of abuse. However, Sara, quickly retracted the allegation and police found no evidence of abuse. Nevertheless, the state took both girls — aged 10 and 11 at the time –and refused to allow them to return home. The government alleged that they found evidence of “religious extremism” and, according to ADF, cited the family’s habit of attending church three times a week. It also cited strict religious upbringing in the home. In the United States, the findings would be glaring violations of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. In Sweden, it is a viable basis for taking away your children. So these girls want to go home and the parents want to restore their family. The Swedish government and courts refuse to allow it. They are still separated after the parents successfully completed state-mandated parenting courses. They also were denied requests to move the girls into foster homes in Romania, where they live. The Swedish Supreme Court refused to hear the case last year, but the European Court of Human Rights said that they had failed “to exhaust legal remedies in Sweden.” Now, according to the ADF International, the government is moving to place the girls up for adoption. The children have moved from foster home to foster home, including allegedly one placement that resulted in one of the girl’s suffering physical and mental health issues. She ultimately tried to commit suicide, according to the family. I have only found articles attesting to the removal on the grounds of the family’s religious faith and practices. The implications are chilling if true. This family appears to have done everything demanded of them as their daughters begged to return home. It is a case worthy of inquiry by the Administration in defense of religious liberty.