School board members want to reinstate prayer
A school board in California is taking a bold stand. The Chino Valley Unified School district is seeking legal action to allow prayer at school board meetings. According to reports, members of the school board are seeking legal counsel to allow their meetings to open with prayer. The board members are being represented by attorneys with Faith and Freedom. Joel Oster an attorney on the team says his team has filed a motion seeking that the previous ban be lifted. Oster says the old, outdated law was the result of a lawsuit ten years ago. Attorneys for the board referenced recent and previous cases where prayer has been allowed in public schools, and the laws of the U.S. being founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs.
The case is being appealed to the Ninth Circuit court, which previously made the decision in California to ban prayer at school board meetings. SNBC NEWS will update you on this story as it develops.
Former physician assistant’s case allowed to proceed
The U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled a Christian’s case against her former employer can move forward. Valerie Kloosterman was fired from her job as a physician assistant in 2021. Kloosterman says she was fired after she refused to support gender-transition procedures. She also says she had refused to use pronouns that did not line up with a person’s biological gender. Kloosterman was fired by University of Michigan Health-West for her stance based on her Christian beliefs. The former physician assistant had worked with the company for 17 years with a stellar record prior to her dismissal. She claims following her refusal, she was mistreated by administrators, with one even claiming she had caused the suicides of several gender confused patients. Kloosterman was also banned from talking about faith or bringing her Bible to work. Kloosterman was later fired a month after being targeted. A justice in the case chastised the hospital system for trying to settle out of court to prevent the details of the case from being revealed. The case will continue to move forward through the court system. SNBC NEWS will update you as the case progresses.
Christians in Nigeria ask for help from US over persecution
Christians in Nigeria are asking for prayer and intervention from the US as persecution in that nation intensifies. A recent documentary is exposing the persecution of Christians in villages and remote areas around Nigeria. Islamic terrorist groups are killing Christians in large number and according to activists the government is doing little to stop the massacre. The documentary produced by Truth Nigeria is shedding light on the persecution. Missionary Judd Saul is asking for the US to intervene and help stop this religious persecution. According to recent information more than three million Christians have been killed in Nigeria, accounting for almost 70 percent of all Christians killed for their faith worldwide.
SNBC Health report: Christian bodybuilder encourages all around health
A Christian bodybuilder is encouraging fellow Christians to make care of the human body a priority. According to Hunter Sprague, Christians should work to maintain a healthy lifestyle for the sake of representing God better. Sprague references I Corinthians 6:19-20 in his argument for better fitness and health among Christians. The fitness influencer says that we have to be good stewards in all areas of life including our physical health. He references physical health, nutrition, and spiritual health as part of what Christians should be doing on a consistent basis to represent the Kingdom to others. Sprague advises a healthy regimen of the Word of God, nutrition, cardio, and weights to help Christians not only grow in the things of God, but to maintain a healthy temple in order to continue witnessing the Gospel to others.