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Anti-Shariah movement changes tactics and gains success

After losing steam in recent years, the anti-Shariah movement has scored a string of victories by, ironically, leaving the words “Shariah” and “Islam” out of bills that restrict state courts from considering foreign law.
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Will North Carolina vote in anti-Sharia legislation?

| May 16, 2013

The latest version of House Bill 695, which prohibits the use of foreign law (such as Islamic Sharia law) in court cases is now headed to the North Carolina House for a vote. See an interactive timeline of the seven states with anti-foreign law legislation here. 
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Students’ right to pray and organize bills headed to N.C. Senate for a vote

| May 9, 2013

The Senate will soon vote on two bills related to both students' right to organize and govern religious organizations at colleges and universities statewide and students' right to pray in nondisruptive ways at school. 
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‘Nuns on the Bus’ will hit the road for immigration reform

| May 2, 2013

“The ‘Nuns on the Bus’ is going on the road again!” Sister Simone Campbell, head of the social justice lobby Network, told an enthusiastic gathering of faith leaders and charity activists at a Manhattan awards ceremony Wednesday (May 1). “This time we’re going out for common-sense immigration reform,” she said to rousing applause.
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NC NAACP leader and ministers released after state capitol pray-in protest arrests

| May 1, 2013

The 17 protestors were accused of trespassing among other charges while part of a pray-in protest against the voter ID bill that passed the N.C. House last week and goes on to the Senate. They were released early Tuesday morning (April 30).
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BRIEF: N.C. governor sets this week as “Week of Prayer for North Carolina”

| Apr 30, 2013

A resolution passed unanimously by the N.C. House and Senate - House Joint Resolution 599 - also calls North Carolina to prayer.
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N.C. sex trafficker registration bill becomes law

| Apr 25, 2013

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed Senate Bill 122 into law Wednesday evening. The law, promoted by law enforcement and faith groups in the state, requires pimps convicted of prostituting minors to be registered as sex offenders after they serve their prison sentences.
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At makeshift National Mall graveyard, clergy demand gun control

| Apr 12, 2013

Standing in front of 3,300 grave markers — representing the number of people who have died in gun violence since December’s massacre in Newtown, Conn. — more than 25 ministers, rabbis and other religious leaders decried as “idolatrous” a society that values guns more than human life.
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Guns as idols - a new front in the war over gun rights

| Apr 8, 2013

Longtime anti-gun violence lobbyist the Rev. James E. Atwood believes that the fight over gun rights in this country could be simplified for Christians to a biblical debate. His argument: for some, gun ownership has become their idol. And God says idolatry is wrong in the 10 Commandments.
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N.C. defense of religion resolution dead, but will there be a fall-out?

| Apr 5, 2013

A resolution aiming to give North Carolina the freedom to defy the Constitution and establish its own religion won’t get a vote in the N.C. General Assembly. But implications from a piece of legislation that aimed to disavow the First Amendment's hold on the establishment of religion in the Old North State could be heard for a while, say law experts in the state.
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Rowan County legislators propose official defense of religion act

| Apr 2, 2013

In reaction to a federal lawsuit against sectarian prayers during county commissioners meetings, Rowan County senators filed a bill Monday (April 1) asserting the state's freedom to establish a North Carolina state religion. 
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