Kentucky ministry for families views itself as support movement
One thing that foster parents desire more than anything else is support, said the founder and president of Borrowed Hearts Owensboro in western Kentucky.
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by bcadmin | Jul 25, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Owensboro, Foster care, News | 0 |
One thing that foster parents desire more than anything else is support, said the founder and president of Borrowed Hearts Owensboro in western Kentucky.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 26, 2022 | Adoption, Associated Press, Church in the US, Foster care, LGBT, Michigan, Michigan Catholic Conference, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty | 0 |
Faith-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan can refuse to place children with same-sex couples under a proposed settlement filed in federal court Tuesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Foster care, LGBTQ, News, USCCB | 0 |
The federal government is funding organizations that illegally discriminate against LGBTQ candidates to become foster care parents for unaccompanied refugee children, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 19, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of St. Cloud, Foster care, Minnesota, News | 0 |
The Browns had been foster parents since 1978 and have seen almost everything in their years of service.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Baptist, Church in the US, Foster care, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty | 0 |
Kentucky’s contract renewal with a Baptist-affiliated children’s agency remains in limbo, but the state is continuing to place youngsters in its care, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Becket Fund, Bishop Nelson J. Perez, Catholic Social Services, Church in the US, Foster care, lead, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
Some are heralding a unanimous Supreme Court decision that upholds the ability of a faith-based foster care agency to operate according to its faith as a statement from the nation’s highest court of its commitment to religious liberty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 20, 2021 | Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Foster care, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
Faith-based and other agencies across the country may not be forced by a government agency to violate their deeply held beliefs against placing children in households led by same-sex or cohabitating adults.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 19, 2021 | Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Foster care, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
Foster parents for Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese said the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision June 17 on faith-based child welfare agencies comes as a relief.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 18, 2021 | Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Foster care, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
Governmental entities are now on notice that if they want to ban discrimination against LGBTQ persons or anyone else, they must not allow for any exceptions, or else religious groups will have the right to ask for them and they’ll have a strong case for getting them.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 17, 2021 | Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Foster care, News, Philadelphia, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia’s foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 1, 2021 | Catholic Social Services, First Amendment, Foster care, homosexual unions, News, Philadelphia, Religious Freedom, religious liberty, SCOTUS, The Dispatch | 0 |
Ken Starr’s new book Religious Liberty in Crisis: Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty (Encounter Books, 2021), is a very sound, popular treatment of the constitutional issues surrounding the free-exercise and no-establishment provisions […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 16, 2021 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Bishop David Konderla, Cardinal Dolan, Church in the US, Foster care, Gay marriage, lead, News, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, USCCB | 0 |
Three U.S. Bishops Conference chairmen affirmed Monday their support for First Amendment protections for faith-based foster care and adoption providers with legislation introduced that aims to ensure those institutions continue to receive funding.
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