On Tuesday February at 8pm, “Watchmen on the Wall” on TBN Africa will feature the Opening of Parliament, President Zuma’s State of the Nation Address and responses from political leaders. Opposition party leaders appear upbeat about the prospect of the ANC losing significant support in the 2014 General Elections. Genuine […]
Tag: home schooling
German home-school parents seek justice in US Supreme Court
Originally published in Charisma News The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is filing a petition with the United States Supreme Court today (Thursday, October 10) to hear Romeike v. Holder, the German home-schooling asylum case. In April, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sustained the […]
German homeschoolers get children back, must send them to state school
Dirk and Petra Wunderlich’s children were returned to them after a court hearing today (Thursday, September 19), three weeks to the day after their four children were seized during a police raid. The Wunderlich children were returned after the parents promised they would send their children back to a state […]
Europe: Treating homeschoolers like terrorists
Originally published by Gatestone Institute A German SWAT team stormed a house in Darmstadt on the morning of August 29. Had the German police discovered a group of dangerous jihadists? No, they were storming the house because the family living in the house were homeschooling their four children. The children, […]
Obama administration: forcing German Christians to send children to public school ‘not persecution’
Originally published in Christian News The Obama administration has replied to a request for rehearing of a case involving a Christian homeschooling family seeking asylum in the United States, asserting that the couple has not been able to prove that they have been persecuted by being forced to send their […]
US court denies German home-schoolers asylum
Originally published in Charisma News The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama administration’s refusal to grant asylum to the Romeike family. US Attorney General Eric Holder filed against the family, arguing that asylum should not be granted because home schooling isn’t a fundamental right protected under religious freedom. […]