Biden Admin Stopped Threatening OK Catholic Hospital System Over the Chapel’s Sanctuary Lamp
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The Department of Health & Human Services told the system "it would lose its ability to accept Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)" if it did not remove the candle from the chapel.
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Biden Admin Tells Catholic Hospital To Put Out Sanctuary Candle Light In Violation Of Religious Beliefs
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Biden Admin Stopped Threatening OK Catholic Hospital System Over the Chapel’s Sanctuary Lamp
The federal government recently told a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma to either blow out a small candle or stop serving elderly, disabled, and low-income patients. Saint Francis Health System, the twel...
The federal government has warned a Catholic hospital that it could lose its ability to serve low-income and elderly patients if it doesn t extinguish its sanctuary candle, which the hospital keeps ...
The Department of Health & Human Services told the system "it would lose its ability to accept Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)" if it did not remove the candle from the chapel.
The Biden administration will allow a Catholic hospital to keep its sanctuary candle after previously demanding its removal for fire safety requirements, the hospital’s lawyers announced Friday. […]
The Biden administration backed down from its repeated threats to strip a major Catholic hospital system in Oklahoma of key accreditations over a religious candle one of its facilities maintains.
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