pipeline Archives

Pipeline struggle reveals value of community to religious congregation

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Feb 21, 2019

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Feb. 19, 2019, to hear an appeal by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ that their religious freedom was being violated by the construction of the pipeline through their land in Columbia, Pa.

Mexican bishops pray, priests celebrate funerals after pipeline explosion

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Jan 24, 2019

Mexico’s bishops offered prayers for the victims of an explosion in which dozens of villagers in the central state of Hidalgo perished after rushing to get some of the gasoline gushing from what appears to have been an illegally tapped pipeline.

Pennsylvania nuns ask Supreme Court to uphold their religious rights

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Oct 23, 2018

The Adorers of the Blood of Christ have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether their religious freedom rights were violated by the construction and pending use of a natural gas pipeline through its land.

Supreme Court petition next step in effort to stop natural gas pipeline

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Sep 13, 2018

A Pennsylvania religious congregation planned to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether their religious freedom rights are being violated by the construction and pending use of a natural gas pipeline on its land.

Appeals court denies Adorers’ religious freedom claims against pipeline

Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
Jul 26, 2018

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that denied the religious freedom arguments of a Pennsylvania religious order that sought to block a natural gas line from the sisters’ land because it violated their faith beliefs.

Nuns appeal pipeline project on religious grounds

Associated Press, Church in the US
Jan 20, 2018

The Adorers of the Blood of Christ brought their fight to stop a natural gas pipeline project on their rural Pennsylvania property to a federal appeals court Friday.