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Woman sues InterVarsity over firing after divorce

A Michigan woman has filed a wrongful­-termination lawsuit against InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, saying she was fired because of her divorce while two male colleagues kept their jobs as they went through divorce and remarriage.

Alyce Conlon worked for the evangelical campus ministry as a spiritual director at the Grand Rapids office from 2004 until she was let go in December 2011, according to a suit in early October in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

A spokesman for InterVarsity said no one from the organization would be able to comment on the case, but provided the following statement: