NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Long before cable television, spa treatments and eco-friendly soaps and shampoos became staples in hotel rooms, there was the Bible — the Gideon Bible. And the book with the ...

SUMMIT COUNTY – In an effort to resolve the Gideons Bible controversy that erupted in May, the Summit County Board of Education continued to discuss possible changes in district policy at its ...

Legal understandingThe recently released statement by the school district attempted to clarify its legal rationale for allowing in the Gideons: “The District believes that its policies are consistent ...

The New Jersey Superior Court today issued a temporary injunction restraining the Board of Education of the town of Rutherford from implementing its recent resolution to permit the Gideon Society to ...

ST. LOUIS (CN) - The 8th Circuit upheld a ban on a Missouri elementary school's 30-year practice of allowing Gideons to hand out Bibles to fifth graders in the classroom. The school board had been ...

The Gideons themselves are as discreet as their Bibles are ubiquitous. "When we make a distribution, it's not broadcast all over the news," Dan Siek told the Casper Rotary Club on Monday. "We don't ...

SUMMIT COUNTY – Questions about the separation of church and state surfaced this month in Summit County when members of Gideons International were allowed to set up tables offering free Bibles in the ...

ALBANY, GA (WALB) - A group with The Gideons addressed Dougherty County School Board members in an effort to allow the distribution of Bibles in schools, but their plans are already in an uphill ...

The Gideons International, a Christian association of men that started in 1908, focuses on distributing the Bible and has given out around 2 billion Bibles worldwide. The Gideons International website ...

A federal judge has ruled that a rural Missouri school district’s longstanding practice of allowing Gideon Bibles to be distributed to students is unconstitutional, the Associated Press reports. The ...

Effingham County school officials have agreed to bar the Gideons from proselytizing or distributing Bibles in schools after three parents complained to the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Parents of ...

SUMMIT COUNTY – In the face of criticism about distribution of free Bibles in the middle and high schools, the Summit School District recently issued a statement to clarify its position – and said it ...