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
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
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 flyer
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