Sister Dede Byrne Sues Washington Over COVID Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers
Religious freedom is protected under the law regardless of the popularity of the belief that is infringed.
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Appeals Court: Navy Service Members Requesting Religious Exemption to COVID Vaccine Should Not Be Punished
In August 2021, the Pentagon announced that all service members would have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and over 99% now are.
Watchdog Group Calls Out Biden Administration’s Religious Exemption Tracking System
COMMENTARY: Legal scholars at the Heritage Institute’s Meese Center are reminding the Biden administration of its duty to recognize and protect conscience rights in the federal workplace.
Vatican’s COVID Mandate Part 2: December Decree Repeats Failed February Effort
The Holy See’s previous vaccine mandate’s requirements were scaled back after pushback.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Halts Vaccinate-or-Test Mandate for Businesses
The Supreme Court did allow a new federal rule to go forward that requires millions of U.S. health care workers to be fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19.
Cardinal Parolin Appears to Deny Conscience Right Exemption from Vatican’s Pfizer Vaccine
Responding to a query about his Dec. 23 ruling mandating vaccination for all Vatican employees and visitors who haven’t recently recovered from COVID-19, the Vatican secretary of state indicated religious exemptions are not ‘justified’ with respect to mRNA vaccines.
Supreme Court Allows Maine’s Bar on Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate to Stand
Maine remains one of only three states — along with New York and Rhode Island — whose COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health-care workers does not allow for religious exemptions.
Massachusetts Hospital Employees, Citing Religious Concerns to COVID Vaccines, Sue to Keep Their Jobs
Workers with Mass General Brigham risk firing for being unvaccinated.
Archbishop Broglio: COVID-19 Vaccines Morally Permissible, but Troops May Conscientiously Object
Military branches have instituted various deadlines for the vaccination of all troops.
Federal Government Issues Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccine Religious Exemptions
A template for religious exemptions includes a seven-part form for employees to fill out, asking a series of questions about employees’ religious-based objection to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
