Michael Gryboski

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  May 23, 2020

  Businessman vows to pay $500 fines for 3 Ill. churches holding in-person worship services

  A businessman and former mayoral candidate has stated that he will pay the fines three churches in Illinois will face for holding in-person worship despite state stay-at-home order.

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  May 22, 2020

  NY Gov. Cuomo allows drive-in church services, in-person worship of 10 people or less

  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week that churches can begin hosting drive-in worship services as long as they follow “strict social distancing guidelines.” Additionally, houses of worship can hold in-person services as long as they're limited to 10 people or fewer. 

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  May 22, 2020

  Mo. congregation sues county for imposing limits on churches, but not secular venues

  A congregation in Missouri has filed a lawsuit against county officials over restrictions on in-person worship services that they believe violates their First Amendment rights.

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  May 21, 2020

  Ark Encounter, Creation Museum to reopen June 8

  The Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter, two entities known for advancing a Young Earth creationist perspective on life’s origins, will be reopening on June 8 after having closed down in March.

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  May 21, 2020

  Catholic, Lutheran churches to defy Minn. gathering ban by resuming services

  The Minnesota Catholic Conference and the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod of Minnesota have publicly declared that they will resume in-person worship services on May 26 despite state restrictions on religious gatherings.

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  May 20, 2020

  DOJ warns Calif. Gov. Newsom not to discriminate against churches in reopening plans

  The U.S. Department of Justice has told California to do more to consider the rights of houses of worship regarding orders aimed at limiting gatherings to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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  May 20, 2020

  LDS Church unveils plan to resume in-person worship services

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced a plan to gradually restart their in-person worship services, having previously suspended worship gatherings in March to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.

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  May 20, 2020

  Over 60 cases of COVID-19, 4 deaths linked to rural Arkansas church: CDC

  As churches nationwide consider plans to reopen, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report showing how the coronavirus spread through a single Arkansas congregation earlier this year resulting in dozens of infections and as many as four deaths.

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  May 20, 2020

  Pro-lifers slam FX documentary's claim Jane Roe was paid to be pro-life: 'She was sincere'

  Pro-life activists, some of whom have known Norma McCorvey for many years, are rejecting a new documentary’s claim that the woman behind the landmark Supreme Court abortion case Roe v. Wade was paid later in life to promote anti-abortion views.

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  May 20, 2020

  Os Guinness: US switching from biblical American Revolution values to secular French Revolution ones

  The United States is gradually “switching” from a worldview influenced by a biblical American Revolution model to an anti-religious French Revolution model, according to author and social critic Os Guinness.