By AL WEBB Religion News Service LONDON – A government-funded watchdog panel said British judges have erred in supporting employers who try to fire Christian workers for wearing crosses or refusing to offer sex counseling to gay couples.     The Equality and Human Rights Commission said Monday that employers should ease up, saying current interpretations of…

Political correctness did in a Cisco Systems leadership instructor after it was discovered he wrote a book blasting the tyranny of political correctness. “The American-based multinational corporation Cisco Systems, a company that touts its ‘inclusion and diversity’ strategies, has come under attack for the recent firing of a top employee, reputedly over his off-the-job work…

  American Christians may one day find themselves facing legal penalties simply for believing marriage can only exist between a man and a woman, a fate already suffered by believers in other countries, writes New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan. Perhaps one of America’s most influential Catholics. He reflected in his personal blog on Thursday on the nasty…

Shi Enhao, a leader in China’s growing underground church movement, disappeared last month — and it turns out he’s been in police custody, held on “suspicion of using superstition to undermine national law enforcement.” Shi is one of as many as 150 million Chinese Christians who refuse to join the Communist Party’s Three-Self Patriotic Movement…

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