A jury awarded a Catholic Michigan woman US$12.7 million (NZ$21.6m) in a religious discrimination lawsuit after her former employer — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) — refused to give her a religious exemption from the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and fired her. The woman, Lisa Domski, submitted a religious exemption request to the Read more
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COVID-19 vaccine: No grounds for religious exemption
Thursday, August 5th, 2021
The Archdiocese of New York has instructed priests not to grant religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine, saying that to do so would contradict the pope. “There is no basis for a priest to issue a religious exemption to the vaccine,” John P. Cahill, the archdiocese’s chancellor, stated in a memo to all pastors, administrators, Read more
G7 leaders’ vaccine pledge is a moral failure
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
The G7 leaders’ vaccine pledge – to fund one billion COVID vaccines falls “far short” of what is needed. It represents a “moral failure”, Britain’s former Prime Minister Gordon Brown says. His comments were made on Sunday when he was delivering the Methodist Justice Lecture online. “The G7 summit was one venue where, with the Read more