This week, on Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard two critical cases on the application of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to sexual orientation and gender identity. As Justice Gorsuch said during the hearing, a ruling in this case may cause “massive social upheaval.” It is vitally important to pray.

IFA will be hosting a prayer tour in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and we will be at the Supreme Court praying during the day (as well as at the Capitol and the White House.) We invited to intercessors to join us and a core group said “yes,” not knowing that it would be such a critical time to intercede on site. Our group will share parts of our day via Facebook Live, as we are able, as an update and a source of encouragement to other intercessors across the nation. You can reach our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/IFAPray/posts/?ref=page_internal.

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We will be using a prayer guide that we developed for this event. Feel free to download and use it as you intercede today for the nation and our leaders.

Another case we will be praying about concerns a Christian high school student who was urged by a teacher to recite the Islamic Creed. CBN News reported in May that her case had been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now we’ve discovered the girl’s plea is on the high court’s online docket which shows it has been distributed for a conference at the court on Oct. 11.

Your prayers are needed today for the Supreme Court conference tomorrow. Pray God’s will for whether the Supreme Court should take this case. Pray also for protection of religious freedom.

Four years ago, Christian high school junior Caleigh Wood was compelled by her teacher at La Plata High School in La Plata, MD, to recite the Islamic conversion creed – the Shahada – as part of a written assignment. She was required to write the Islamic creed, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”

The World History course also taught that “Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian’s.”

Wood refused to complete the assignment, believing that it is a sin to profess by word or in writing, that there is any other god except the Christian God.

School officials refused to let her opt-out of the course, and as a result, she received a lower percentage grade for the course, but that did not affect her letter grade.

The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) on behalf of the Wood family filed a lawsuit, claiming the school had violated the First Amendment Establishment Clause and the girl’s right not to be forced to profess faith in another religion. Both the Federal District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the high school’s Islamic curriculum.

Now, the TMLC has appealed the case to the Supreme Court asking the high court to decide whether any legal basis exists to allow public schools to discriminate against Christianity while at the same time promoting Islam.

“Under the guise of teaching history or social studies, public schools across America are promoting the religion of Islam in ways that would never be tolerated for Christianity or any other religion,” TMLC President and Chief Counsel Richard Thompson said in a statement. “I’m not aware of any school which has forced a Muslim student to write the Lord’s Prayer or John 3:16: ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.'”

(Except from CBN News. Article by Steve Warren.)