Baronelle Stutzman was sued after she declined an order from a customer she had previously served for ten years,

The US Supreme Court has asked the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider the lawsuit in light of the recent decision given to cake-maker Jack Phillips who won a case in which he was told he was within his rights to refuse to make a cake for a gay wedding.

The country’s top judges ruled 7-2 in his favour.

Stutzman is being represented by religious freedom charity Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

Addressing the development, ADF senior vice president of US legal division Kristen Waggoner said: “Barronelle, like Jack, serves all customers but declines to create custom art that expresses messages or celebrates events in conflict with her deeply held religious beliefs.

“The Washington attorney general’s efforts to punish her because he dislikes her beliefs about marriage are as impermissible as Colorado’s attempt to punish Jack.

“The US Supreme Court has rightfully asked the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider Barronelle’s case in light of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision.

“In that ruling, the US Supreme Court denounced government hostility toward the religious beliefs about marriage held by creative professionals like Jack and Barronelle. The state of Washington, acting through its attorney general, has shown similar hostility here.”

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The King is being made by Netflix and is based on William Shakespeare’s Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth.

While the cathedral was closed off to the public since around 7am when the film crew arrived, services continued as normal, with visitors using a different entrance.

However, a face many people may have been hoping to catch a glimpse of, wasn’t present.

Richard Main, the owner of Chapterhouse, confirmed on Instagram that Mr Pitt wouldn’t be in the city.

I am holding on to this scene of peace and tranquility today as movie makers take over the cathedral for the day.
A rarely seen empty north transept cleared of screens and blue chairs. The dean’s door in full view. @DeanofLincoln pic.twitter.com/RcQr5GJJVL

— Lincoln Cathedral (@LincsCathedral) June 25, 2018

“Henry V’s coronation is being filmed in Lincoln Cathedral this week and the huge lights outside the building shall be shining through these beautiful windows,” he said.

“They have added faux candle stands too for effect. Brad Pitt’s film The King is a Netflix release though he’s not actually in it or in Lincoln… deep sighs abound.”

This isn’t the first time Lincoln has hosted a major Hollywood production.

Tom Hanks visited the city to film part of the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code at Lincoln Cathedral.

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Christian charity Open Doors spoke to people about why they believe Hany Ramzy has been the only ever Christian player in the national team and why there are very few in Egypt’s local teams.

Remon Zakhry plays for a small football club in Assiut, Upper Egypt. He was routinely told that Christians do not play football in Egypt whenever he applied to play in clubs.

Opening up about nearly signing a contract to join Second Division club, El Gouna FC, with coach Ismail Youssef, he explained: “I presented my ID to complete the contract and Youssef saw my name. He was surprised to learn that Remon is my real name and not a nickname. He returned my ID and left the room.
 
“The contractor attending the meeting told me later that Youssef doesn’t like to work with Christians.”

While Christians make up around ten per cent of Egypt’s population, the number of them competing for Egypt in sporting events is extremely low.

The 2016 Olympic Games which had 122 athletes from Egypt didn’t have a single Coptic Christian compete. Coptic Solidarity filed a complaint with the International Olympic Committee, saying the absence of Christians was the “product of deep-rooted discrimination that exists in the administration of athletics and football in Egypt, and in Egyptian society at large”.

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Seven people were injured, including two critically, after the vehicle collided with pedestrians. It is understood a priest driving the vehicle lost consciousness at the wheel.

Gardai said the driver of the car fell ill and struck the group at 10.20am on Monday.

Emergency services rushed to the scene of the Church of Immaculate Conception in Clondalkin, west Dublin, where mourners had gathered for a funeral.

Witness and mourner Larry Noonan said that other people jumped out of the way to avoid the collision.

Mr Noonan, from Blackrock in south Dublin, said: “There was about 200 people standing around waiting for the hearse to arrive when there was a rumble of noise, it sounded like the church was collapsing, the sound was unbelievable and then we saw people rushing back.

“It was only about 20 feet away from me – it was packed with people – and then we discovered it was a car and people were underneath it. I believe there was about eight people injured.

All our resources have left the scene of the #Clondalkin RTC. In total 4 Fire, 1 Rescue Tender, 1 District Officer, 4 DFB ambulances and our Advanced Paramedic vehicle attended. A number of resources from @AmbulanceNAS and @GardaTraffic attended. Approx 13 people treated. https://t.co/qS58h9c1Ur

— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) June 25, 2018

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President Muhammadu Buhari appealed for calm as the military and police tried to end the “deeply unfortunate” bloodshed in the Plateau state and said “no efforts will be spared” to find the attackers and prevent reprisal attacks.

Nigeria’s government did not announce a death toll. But the independent Channels Television cited a Plateau State police spokesman, Mathias Tyopev, as saying 86 people had been killed, with at least 50 houses destroyed, in violence that appeared to have started overnight.

Deadly clashes between herders and farmers in central Nigeria are a growing security concern in Africa’s most populous country, which is roughly split between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south.

The fighting between herders and farmers by some accounts has been deadlier than Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremist insurgency, which continues to carry out attacks in the northeast.

The grievous loss of lives & property arising from the killings in Plateau today is painful and regrettable. My deepest condolences to the affected communities. We will not rest until all murderers and criminal elements and their sponsors are incapacitated and brought to justice.

— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) June 24, 2018

That extremist threat has been cited as one cause of the growing tensions in central Nigeria as herders – also feeling the effects of climate change – are forced south…