The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/religious-freedom/page/6)
Today’s story is an update on last week’s Rutherfordton events where officials denied a permit for a small Pagan-led vigil, citing undocumented restrictions and a coercive “Christian parade” alternative,
When Rutherfordton officials denied a permit for a small Pagan-led vigil, citing undocumented restrictions and a coercive “Christian parade” alternative, High Priestex Mortellus confronted a system that limits minority-faith expression in a traditional public forum during the holiday season.
A new executive order aims to modernize the nation’s child-welfare system, but advocates warn its emphasis on faith-based partnerships and “basic biological truths” may open the door to religious gatekeeping and discrimination against minority faiths and LGBTQ+ families.
A Christian ministry disrupted Salem’s Psychic Fair and Witches’ Market, harassing vendors, anointing booths, and desecrating an Ancestor altar amid a surge of anti-Halloween activism portraying Halloween and Samhain as “demonic” and urging believers to “oppose darkness.
At Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, Indigenous and interfaith leaders continue a years-long fight to protect holy ground from a proposed copper mine, testing the boundaries of U.S. commitments to religious freedom and environmental justice.